| Description |
1 online resource (iv, 10 pages) |
| Series |
ICCT report, 2468-0486 |
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ICCT report, 2468-0486
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| Summary |
This report examines the social media shutdown in the wake of the Easter Attacks in Sri Lanka, and its impacts on journalists and post-incident communal violence. By highlighting the shutdown's limitations, social costs and impact on misinformation, this report presents key recommendations for policy-makers, journalists and other key stakeholders. The decision to block social media was, according to most of our respondents, only a temporary fix to a larger social problem. Most people, including actors spreading misinformation and disinformation, found ways to circumvent the ban quite quickly, and it seems to have had little impact on the number of posts that were circulating in general. It is clear that if Sri Lanka wants to manage and prevent future violence, the country needs to weigh the social, technical, and economic impacts of protracted digital blockades as a blanket policy response |
| Notes |
"Strategic Communications Project Report." |
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"October 2020." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 9-10) |
| Notes |
"Funded by the European Union." |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ICCT, viewed January 4, 2021) |
| Subject |
Terrorism -- Sri Lanka -- Prevention
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Social media and society -- Sri Lanka -- Evaluation
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Disinformation -- Sri Lanka -- Prevention
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Conflict management -- Sri Lanka
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Conflict management.
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Terrorism -- Prevention.
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Sri Lanka.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rizwie, Rukshana, author
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International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, publisher.
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