{"id":93875,"date":"2019-10-14T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93875"},"modified":"2019-10-14T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T19:50:57","slug":"posts-shared-on-social-media-about-my-manifesto-are-all-fake-venerable-battaramulle-seelarathana-thero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/14\/posts-shared-on-social-media-about-my-manifesto-are-all-fake-venerable-battaramulle-seelarathana-thero\/","title":{"rendered":"Posts shared on social media about my manifesto are all fake &#8211;  Venerable Battaramulle Seelarathana Thero"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>MEDIA UNIT CaFFE Organization\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Leader of the Janasetha Peramuna, Venerable Battaramulle\nSeelarathana Thero informed Campaign for Free and Fair Election (CaFFE) that\nposts shared on social media on his election manifesto are false.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nThis seems to be a deliberate ploy to embarrass his party by an organized\ngroup, the Thera told CaFFE. &#8220;The thera added that these social media\nposts have become extremely popular and now its almost impossible for the party\nto inform the people of their real&nbsp;policies,&#8221; CaFFE Acting Executive\nDirector, Manas Makeen said.<br>\n<br>\nCaFFE insists that such deliberate misinformation campaigns are extremely\ndangerous and that immediate steps should be taken to address these concerns.\nMeanwhile CaFFE Director, Surangika Ariyawansha said that they have received\ninformation that a number ofsystematic misinformation and fake news campaigns\nhave been unleashed to deceive voters. She says that systematic misinformation\nand fake news poses a serious problem for free and fair elections. &#8220;We\nplan to provide information we have to the National ElectionCommission (NEC) so\nthat they can take immediate steps,&#8221; she said.<br>\n<br>\nCaFFE has received 161 complaints and most of them are incidents of election\nlaw violations and misuse of state property<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MEDIA UNIT<br>CaFFE Organization\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA UNIT CaFFE Organization\u00a0 Leader of the Janasetha Peramuna, Venerable Battaramulle Seelarathana Thero informed Campaign for Free and Fair Election (CaFFE) that posts shared on social media on his election manifesto are false.&nbsp; This seems to be a deliberate ploy to embarrass his party by an organized group, the Thera told CaFFE. &#8220;The thera added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}