{"id":16735,"date":"2017-05-27T12:39:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T19:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=16735"},"modified":"2017-05-27T12:39:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T19:39:50","slug":"sri-lanka-minister-complains-fake-twitter-account-announced-manmohan-singhs-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/sri-lanka-minister-complains-fake-twitter-account-announced-manmohan-singhs-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Minister Complains, Fake Twitter Account Announced Manmohan Singh\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake arrives at his office in Colombo, May 25. (Ishara S. Kodikara\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>@Siliconeer #Siliconeer #Twitter #SriLanka #India @TiESV #TiESV #RaviKarunanayake #ManmohanSingh \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s new Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake lodged a complaint with the police, May 25, to probe into a false Twitter account in his name which had posted about the death of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In a letter to the police\u2019s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Karunanyake\u2019s secretary Sisira Wijesinghe said a twitter account in the name of the minister was a fake account and it had falsely claimed the passing away of the former Indian Prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint was Karunanayake\u2019s first official action after assuming his new job, May 25, having shifted from the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers had published the tweet quoting foreign ministry spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Karunanayake\u2019s shift from the Finance Ministry to Foreign Ministry on May 22 was one of the major changes in the government\u2019s first cabinet reshuffle since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He was replaced by Mangala Samaraweera as the finance minister who earlier held the post of foreign minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@Siliconeer #Siliconeer #Twitter #SriLanka #India @TiESV #TiESV #RaviKarunanayake #ManmohanSingh \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s new Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake lodged a complaint with the police, May 25, to probe into a false Twitter account in his name which had posted about the death of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[373,358,50,3290,3289,147,3288],"class_list":["post-16735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-current-affairs","tag-twitter","tag-tiesv","tag-india","tag-manmohan-singh","tag-ravi-karunanayake","tag-siliconeer","tag-sri-lanka"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}