THE MEDIA CHEERS GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP OF THE INTERNET
What the media’s response to Sri Lanka’s social media shutdown says about its real agenda
After Muslim terrorists murdered hundreds of Christians, the Sri Lankan government responded, as it had during clashes between Muslims and Buddhists last year, by shutting down social media.
The Sri Lankan government’s justification for the shutdown was that "false news reports" were being spread through social media. This excuse closely echoed the argument that the media in the United States had been making in its push for censoring Facebook after Trump’s victory to fight “fake news”. -- MORE....
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Daniel Greenfield——Bio and Archives
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.