The Sri Lankan government, citing 'false news reports,' has placed a temporary nationwide block on social media sites after hundreds died in multiple attacks today
New York Sri Lanka placed a nationwide block on social media sites after more than 200 people died in multiple attacks on Sunday. The government, in taking the drastic step, cited"false news reports" it said were circulating online.
The shutdown, which the government said would be temporary, highlights the challenges the world's most powerful tech companies face in curbing the spread of misinformation and propaganda in the aftermath of terrorist attacks. It also raises questions of censorship and a government's ability to turn off the world's most popular websites. In announcing the ban on its official news portal, Sri Lanka named Facebook and Instagram among the sites it had blocked.
— Ivan Sigal April 21, 2019 Earlier, the Red Cross in Sri Lanka had used Twitter to push back on misinformation."Rumours circulating on social media that the Red Cross building was attacked is false and wrong information," they tweeted, adding,"Please refrain from spreading unauthentic and false information on Social Media."Facebook came under intense scrutiny just last month when the suspect in the New Zealand terror attack streamed live video of the massacre on Facebook.
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