Online Safety Act, No. 9 of 2024 37 PART VI COUNTERACTING INAUTHENTIC ONLINE ACCOUNTS AND COORDINATED INAUTHENTIC BEHAVIOUR 32. (1) If the conditions in subsection (2) are satisfied, the Commission may issue a notice in writing to an internet intermediary, requiring it to do one or both of the following, for the period specified in such notice: (a) to refrain from permitting its services from being used to communicate any prohibited statement in Sri Lanka through one or more specified online accounts; or (b) to refrain from permitting any person from using one or more specified online accounts to interact with any end user of its internet intermediary service in Sri Lanka. (2) The conditions referred to in subsection (1) shall be, as follows:(a) such online account or accounts shall have been created with the internet intermediary in respect of which the notice under subsection (1) is issued; (b) either a prohibited statement has been communicated in Sri Lanka using the specified online account or coordinated inauthentic behaviour has been carried out in Sri Lanka using the specified online account; and (c) the Commission has determined that the online account is an inauthentic online account or is controlled by a bot. Counteracting inauthentic online accounts and coordinated inauthentic behaviour

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