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Facebook flak and us-BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE Source:Sundayobserver Mark Zuckerburg the Facebook head has written an entire opus about how unfair it is that a whistleblower who worked at Facebook is exposing how the company cares very little about Facebook users. There have been Facebook related suicides particularly among teens in this country as well, and therefore it is somewhat difficult to take the lady’s alleged exposes about Facebook lightly. Also, fact-less social media posting on politics and politically related issues has been a problem in this country for quite a long time. Added to this, Sri Lanka and similar countries are a backwater as far as Facebook policymakers are concerned and the same enthusiasm that animates the platform’s concerns with regard to cyber bullying and so on., in USA, doesn’t obtain when it comes to monitoring the social media landscape in these countries. Zuckerburg in his long and very aggrieved ...