Business Insider: Sri Lanka has temporarily blocked access to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp after a series of bombings left over 200 dead, fearing the spread of misinformation
* The Sri Lankan government has reportedly blocked access to various social media sites after a wave of bombings left over 200 dead across the country.
* Although there is no known direct connection between Sunday's attacks and social media at this time, Facebook and other social media have played a role in fanning ethnic and religious violence in Sri Lanka and other countries in recent years.
After a series of bombings at churches and hotels early Easter Sunday left over 200 dead across Sri Lanka, the country's government has blocked access to social media sites including Facebook and Instagram, according to Sri Lanka's government news site.
According to that report, Sri Lanka's Presidential Secretariat made the decision "as false news reports were spreading through social media."
A tweet from Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe condemning the attacks cautioned residents of the country to "avoid propagating unverified reports and speculation," and a tweet from Sri Lanka's Red Cross debunked social media rumors that their building had been attacked.
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Update #1: Sri Lankan government blocks social media and imposes curfew following deadly blasts (Mercury News/Washington Post)
Update #2: Sri Lanka restricts access to social media sites following terror attack (The Verge)
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4 comments:
A horrible evil thing to have happen. My prayers for the dead and injured.
We don't know who did that, of course, but who are the people who blow themselves?
If no Muslims group has actually claimned credit it yet, it is because the Demnocrats sent a lawyer (attourney client privilege) to various Muslim grouops advising them not to claim creit. It makes it harder for the Demcorats to fly combat air patrol (CAP) for themm in the news media, public square, and blogosphere.
Too many of these evenets happen in a years time with Muslim groups screaming credit for it and people will tell Democrats to sit down and shut up or worse, when they shake their finger and say "Islamophobia".
The schools might be bad and people might suck at math, but they cabn do baseball stats. Push comne to shove people can come up with rough stats on, who is responsible no matter all the red herring the MSM throw and all the attempted shaming with calls of Islamophobia.
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