{"id":134796,"date":"2014-12-13T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T08:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=134796"},"modified":"2014-12-19T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T05:40:22","slug":"tirans-maubima-newspaper-urges-govt-to-block-news-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tirans-maubima-newspaper-urges-govt-to-block-news-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiran&#8217;s Maubima Newspaper Urges Govt To Block News Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maubima newspaper owned by businessman turned politician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tiran+Alles&amp;x=12&amp;y=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tiran Alles<\/span><\/a>, has called upon the government to censor and block news websites &#8211; which in their opinion &#8211; have been publishing false information in the wake of the announcement of Presidential polls.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5685\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tiran-colombotelegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5685\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tiran-colombotelegraph.jpg\" alt=\"Tiran\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In its editorial published yesterday (12), the writer has claimed that various organized groups in foreign countries have been increasingly planting false news items in and have been circulating such misleading information through social media sites including Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Though no credible source has been quoted, the editorial claims that certain members of these various \u2018conspirator\u2019 groups operating from foreign countries have been managing about 300 accounts by each person, which have then been deployed to mislead internet users by feeding them false information.<\/p>\n<p>The writer has gone on to state that although the government has on previous occasions taken measures to censor and block certain news websites following disclosures made by the Maubima newspaper on the ongoing \u2018web mafia\u2019, no action has been taken so far concerning the increase of false information being circulated among local internet users in target of the upcoming presidential polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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