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Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
A false Facebook claim: "23,000 sterilization pills caught in Ampara. Thank you to the police. Muslim pharmacy owner from Akkaraipattu arrested. Who wants to sterilize the Sinhalese?"
Credit: Amanda Taub/The New York Times
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.
From The New York Times
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