Soon, the South Asian nation will gear up for a presidential election with an eye toward what social media will mean in Sri Lanka next ... Billions of people use it. The economy is reliant ...

Sri Lanka blocked ... of Facebook usage corresponded with more attacks on refugees. All but the most authoritarian governments have typically been wary of blocking social media access, as the ...

NEW YORK – Viji Devadas hasn't heard from her nephew in Sri Lanka on her family WhatsApp ... He also cautioned expatriates to use social media responsibly to support one another but not to ...

Sri Lanka blocked access to social media platforms Sunday after authorities imposed a weekend nationwide curfew to contain protests over a worsening economic crisis. The South Asian nation is ...

The government of Sri Lanka has temporarily blocked access to several social media services following deadly ... But some said they were able to still use WhatsApp. Facebook spokesperson Ruchika ...

On Sunday, six suicide bombers launched a coordinated series of attacks in Sri Lanka that killed at least ... Billions of people now use social media platforms, and they've become an integral ...

The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), Sri Lanka's main opposition alliance, denounced a social media blockade imposed ... Colombo expressed concern over the use of emergency laws to stifle democratic ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s president on Tuesday ... the government called on the public “to use social media responsibly even though the ban is lifted, due to the prevailing situation ...

The recent exertions showed that media institutions performed their duties in such a manner as to safeguard the profession from external forces and orders, proving that the Sri Lankan media ... taken ...

The Sri Lankan government is looking at imposing new laws to regulate the use of social media, the Daily News reported Member of Parliament Lasantha Alagiyawanna as saying. The proposed laws, one ...

found that use of social networks dropped by only about half. Social media blocks, moreover, disproportionately affect poorer and more vulnerable users, who cannot get access to VPNs, Sigal said. In ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ... social media activist was arrested on Friday for allegedly posting material that could cause public unrest. Western ambassadors in Colombo have expressed concern over the ...