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@ CNN.com, Updated 4:12 AM ET, Sun April 21, 2019
At least 138 people have been killed and more than 560 injured after a series of coordinated bomb blasts at a number of high-end hotels and churches across Sri Lanka on Sunday morning.
The blasts, reported to have occurred at churches in Kochchikade, Negombo and Batticaloa, targeted worshippers as they attended Easter services. Additional blasts ripped through three hotels, the Shangri La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury Hotel, all in the capital, Colombo, according to state broadcaster SLRC [....]
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BBC News Live Reporting
By Ayeshea Perera, Samanthi Dissanayake and Emma Thelwell
Posted at 4:174:17
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 4:25am
Per Guardian Live Feed, they had 10 days noticce of these attacks.
Update: and then that note disappeared...
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 4:42am
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 7:02pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 7:08pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 7:11pm
Social media services blocked in Sri Lanka; 13 arrested; in Latest Updates @
The Associated Press, Last Updated Sunday, April 21, 2019 2:43PM EDT
More from Mashable on the social media blackout:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 7:19pm
Even as a liberal against censorship I'm beginning to think shutting down social media in times like this is a good thing. It's seems more often than not the first information on social media is disinformation and conspiracy theories and those in control of social media have either not figured out how to contain it or simply don't care.
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
This was true when Twain said it and facebook has made it easier to spread lies and weaponized it. In the political realm facebook is more in the service of lies than of the truth.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 7:33pm
It is definitely the type of time period when some kind of regulated media would help.
I posted a story like a year ago was a classic on this topic, something about lies spreading in some South American country about a missing kid and basically a lynch mob ended up forming.
It is certainly classic Al Qaeda theory to target religious or cultural differences and thereby have vengeance emotions spread like wildfire, invite revenge, bring everything down in chaos and rumor. The idea was then people will be begging you to install the wonderful Caliphate or whatevah.
(Even though in dystopian sci-fi, it's a classic meme to have the regulated airwaves after a disaster blaring lies to keep people calm. Kind of a catch-22 in that: don't we want people calm in a disaster? What's wrong with calm during a disaster? Suspension of freedom of hate speech until we have civilization again?)
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 8:44pm
Cybercrime groups and vendors of all kinds operate on Facebook, Krebs on Security:
....Not long after Facebook deleted most of the 120 cybercrime groups I reported to it back in April 2018, many of the groups began reemerging elsewhere on the social network under similar names with the same members.
Instead of reporting those emergent groups directly to people at Facebook’s public relations arm — something most mere mortals aren’t able to do — KrebsOnSecurity decided to report the re-offenders via Facebook’s regular abuse reporting procedures.
What did we find? KrebsOnSecurity received a series of replies saying that Facebook had reviewed my reports but that none of the groups were found to have violated its standards. KrebsOnSecurity later found that reporting the abusive Facebook groups to a quarter-million followers on Twitter was the fastest way to get them disabled.....
by NCD on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 9:53pm
Columbia Journalism Review:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/22/2019 - 9:54pm
I dont see why this is such a social media thing - a hate group pulled off a coordinated attack and the government ignored warnings. It's a security failure, seems to me.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 1:26am
Yes, but after that the government shut down social media. Ten years ago there would have been an outcry against that censorship. Today a significant number of those who would have raged against that censorship are wondering if it might just be ok. That's a pretty interesting part of the story too.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 2:12am
Yeah, but it worries me. I see the social media angle elsewhere, but here the government did nothing, and yet fires off a response in the wrong direction once caught in a horrid embarrassment?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 5:54am
Sri Lanka Muslims Had Warned Officials About Group Behind Attack
By Iain Marlow @ Bloomberg.com, April 22
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/22/2019 - 1:32pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 7:31pm
Pitiful and tragic "red flag" counter-ops in South Carolina. This is exactly the kind of tribal reaction that original Bin Laden terrorism theory hoped for (and Russian chaos plans imitated). Fox News is, of course, stoking it:
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 8:01pm
Robin Wright @ NewYorker.com: ISIS Still Has Global Reach, Despite the Caliphate’s Collapse April 23, 8:50 pm
The scope of the attacks in Sri Lanka reflects the ongoing danger from extremist movements, whether isis, Al Qaeda, their offshoots, or their wannabes.
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 10:27pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/24/2019 - 12:20am
Saudi syndrome allover again?
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/24/2019 - 10:58pm
Sri Lanka: at least 15 killed as police raid suspected bomber hideout
Children and suicide bombers among the dead, say authorities, following fierce gun battle in east coast town
Agence France Presse & Reuters @ TheGuardian.com, Sat 27 Apr 2019 07.21 BST
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/27/2019 - 4:58am
Two Super-Rich Families Ended Up on Opposite Sides of Easter Attacks
Two well-known, wildly successful, close-knit business families from different ends of the world intersected on Easter Sunday. In an instant, five of their children were blown to pieces in the Sri Lanka bombings, one family slaughtered by the other.
By Jeffrey Gettleman, Kai Schultz, Mujib Mashal and Russell Goldman, from Colombo, Sri Lanka
@ NYTimes.com, 3h ago
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/27/2019 - 5:11pm