{"id":11005,"date":"2019-11-12T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/11\/facebook-sri-lanka-election-fake-news"},"modified":"2019-11-13T00:54:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:54:27","slug":"sri-lankans-sound-alarm-over-facebook-fake-news-ahead-of-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11005","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankans sound alarm over Facebook fake news ahead of election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s decision to allow politicians to promote content already rated false by factcheckers has been widely condemned<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan civil society groups are sounding the alarm about Facebook\u2019s policies in advance of the 16 November presidential election, with warnings that the company\u2019s controversial decision to allow politicians to advertise misinformation is \u201cinappropriate and incendiary to boot\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sanjana Hattotuwa, a senior researcher for the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), on 7 November published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpalanka.org\/letter-to-facebook-urgent-need-for-rollout-of-platform-affordances-for-greater-oversight-of-campaign-spending\/\">a letter<\/a> he had sent to Facebook on 30 September seeking additional support for civil society groups monitoring the election because he said he had received no response.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/11\/facebook-sri-lanka-election-fake-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s decision to allow politicians to promote content already rated false by factcheckers has been widely condemnedSri Lankan civil society groups are sounding the alarm about Facebook\u2019s policies in advance of the 16 November presidential electio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[687,61,674,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11039,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions\/11039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}