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Jan Rydzak
Research Scholar and Associate Director for Program, Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford University
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Shutting down social media does not reduce violence, but rather fuels it
In the wake of a
series of coordinated attacks
that claimed more than 250 lives on April 21, the government of Sri Lanka shut off its residents’ access to
social media and online messaging systems
, including Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube,…