He was speaking during an interview with DailyFT.

"In a media culture that was repressed and intimidated, social media played a huge role in this change. It was social media that really got the Opposition message out to the grassroots. We forget how connected Sri Lanka is now, even down to the smallest village, because of the entry of mobile phones. The Opposition campaign had meagre resources and we could not match the Rajapaksa campaign’s propaganda blitz in any way. But on social media, because that was just people spreading the word, erratically and with no coordination, the Opposition campaign was streets ahead of the UPFA one," he said.

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