Sri Lanka, Oct. 22 -- The Government has paid special attention on attempts to incite racial and religious tensions among communities through fake social media accounts, Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament yesterday.

He said the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and intelligence units had launched investigations into such incidents.

The Minister said the CID and the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) had investigated six complaints relating to hate speech over the past 10 years.

With social media usage growing in Sri Lanka, individuals both locally and overseas had been using fake accounts to create racial and religious tensions among communities, he said.

Wijepala said law enforcement authorities faced...