Sri Lanka, previously cited as the go-to-destination for tourists by the Lonely Planet magazine., faced a spate of coordinated bombings in churches and hotels on Easter Sunday 2019. The country was earlier involved in a three-decade internal conflict between the State and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – a proscribed terrorist organisation – that ended in May 2009. The “Easter attacks”, the largest since the war, was carried out by extremist Islamists. The chaos surrounding the attacks were compounded by the viral spread of fake news aimed at the minority Muslim community in the country. This led to a state shutdown of Social Media to prevent anti-Muslim mobs from organising in the aftermath of the attack. The government also decided to criminalize of hate speech and fake news in June 2019 to prevent a reoccurrence of violence.