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When countries are Tinderboxes and facebook is the match. Rumour sets Budhists vs. Moslems in SriLanka

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"...when Sinhalese-language Facebook groups, goaded on by extremists with wide followings on the platform, planned attacks on Muslims, burning a man to death."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world/asia/facebook-sri-lanka-riots.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

 

"Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 13 members of an extended family were glued to Facebook. And they were furious.

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