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    • Basil Rajapaksa: Poultry and eggs 

      FactCheck;P0032
      FactCheck
      (www.factcheck.lk, 12/9/2021)
      TRUE:Sri Lanka…[is] already [close to being] self-sufficient in eggs and poultry. - Basil Rajapaksa, Budget Speech, 12 Novemeber 2021
    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rajapaksa budget 

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      FactCheck
      (www.factcheck.lk, 12/2/2021)
      FALSE: There are 4 Rajapaksas who represent the cabinet. There is also a state minister as well. How much of funds have been allocated to that family—to the ministries they represent? The total expenditure is 5,200 billion ...
    • Udaya Gammanpila: Fuel Imports 

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      FactCheck
      (www.factcheck.lk, 11/4/2021)
      TRUE: Out of the total import expenditure, fuel is the foremost import item upon which more than 20% is spent. - Udaya Gammanpila, Dinamina, 1 October 2021
    • Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Credit cards and tax files 

      FactCheck;E1190
      FactCheck
      (www.factcheck.lk, 11/25/2021)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: There are nearly 1,000 tax files in our country. There are over 10 million credit cards in our country. Each credit card holder does transactions of nearly Rs. 1 million to 1.5 million. - Mahindananda ...
    • The Port City Bill 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2021-05-20)
      This infographic shows determination on the Port City Bill has given by the Supreme Court to Parliament. On this Supreme Court determination 9 clauses of the bill can be passed only by a special majority in parliament, and ...
    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Yugadhanawi Kerawalapitiya Power Plant 

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      FactCheck
      (www.factcheck.lk, 10/28/2021)
      TRUE:…Basil Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, presented a cabinet paper and handed over these constructions [to convert the Yugadhanawi Power Plant into an LNG plant] to a US company [New Fortress Energy] ...
    • Performance of Female MPs in the 9th Parliament 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2021-04-21)
      This infographic shows the Performance of Female Mps in 9th Parliament from August 2020 to February 2021. They are Rohini Kumari Wijerathna, Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, Harini Amarasuriya, Sudarshini Fernandopulle, Thalatha ...
    • Shantha Bandara: Finance Act 2021 

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      FactCheck
      (www.factcheck.lk, 10/21/2021)
      TRUE:…noteworthy is the fact that [the Finance Act No. 18 of 2021] will not invalidate the Prevention of Money Laundering Act or any other finance law in the country. - Shantha Bandara, Divaina, 10 September 2021
    • Ajith Nivard Cabraal: COVID-19 Expenditure 

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      FactCheck
      (www.factcheck.lk, 10/14/2021)
      FALSE:The Government has spent more than Rs. 700 billion on controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and providing relief to people and that it is exactly half of the overall income of this country last year which was Rs. 1,380 ...
    • Mahinda Amaraweera: Public Sector Spending 

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      FactCheck
      (www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2021)
      FALSE: More than 85% of government revenue goes to pay salaries and pensions to public servants. - Mahinda Amaraweera, Media briefing Department of Government Information, 1 September 2021
    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Organic agriculture statistics 

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      FactCheck
      (www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2021)
      TRUE: There are only 16 countries in the world that have at least moved towards 10% organic agriculture. No Asian countries are among those 16. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Official Facebook page of Samagi Jana Balawegaya, 26 October 2021
    • Basil Rajapaksa: 2021 Government Revenue 

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      FactCheck
      (www.factcheck.lk, 11/11/2021)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: Especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rs. 1500-1600 billion has reduced from the revenue that we should have generated during this year alone. That is even higher than the amount we estimated to be the ...
    • උපකාරක අංක පළ කිරීම ප්‍රශංසා කටයුතුයි! 

      Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11-24)
      In the month of November 2021 article published in The Morning on suicide contained emergency helplines, which is in compliance with media ethics guidelines.
    • උපකාරක අංක සඳහන් කිරීම ප්‍රශංසා කටයුතුයි ! 

      Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11-04)
      In the month of November 2021, Ethics Eye published an infographic where data pertaining to publishing helplines with articles on suicide in September 2021 and October 2021 were demonstrated. The following media outlets ...
    • Civil Society Organisation Sustainability Index 2020 for Asia: Sri Lanka Country Report 

      Verite Research; Amarasiri, Sierra; Amjah, Shamana; Besch, Joelle (2021-09)
      This is the seventh time Sri Lanka is participating in the index. Verité Research is the local implementing partner for this initiative. The Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) assesses the sustainability ...
    • Regulating Social Media in Sri Lanka: An Analysis of the Legal and Non-Legal Regulatory Frameworks in the Context of Hate Speech and Disinformation 

      Legal Team (Verité Research, 2021-11)
      This study explores the existing legal and non-legal frameworks to regulate the spread of disinformation and hate speech on social media. The study presents potential implications of the spread of disinformation and hate ...
    • Quantifying the COVID Clean-up of Air Quality in Colombo 

      Verité Insights;
      Dhammapala, Ranil; Basnayake, Ashani
      (Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-09-06)
      This Insight quantifies the improvements in air quality in Colombo during periods of Covid19 related restrictions and reveals that the Covid19 restrictions have led to a 60% reduction in the average duration of time that ...
    • නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ භාවිතය 

      Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)
      During the month of October 2021 Lankadeepa, Divaina, Mawbima and Aruna published several articles which contained the ethical violations of using derogatory and backward terms such as "haamputha", "mathloliya" and "ganika", ...
    • කාන්තාව වෙන් කොට සලකන සහ කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු කරන වාර්තාකරණයන් 

      Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)
      During the month of October, Mawbima, Divaina, Aruna and Dinamina published articles which discriminated women. When reporting law-breaking incidents where both men and women were involved and the women were not in the ...
    • සමේ වර්ණය සහ ශරීරය මත පදනම් වූ කොන් කිරීම් 

      Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)
      During the month of October Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Sunday Divaina and Dinamina published several articles which contained the ethical violations of using the derogatory terms "sudda", "sudu katha" and "cheena" which discriminate ...