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Bandula Gunawardana: Debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/20/2022)FALSE: The debt stood at 2 trillion when Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country. It stood at 7 trillion at the time he handed over the country. The debt only rose by 5 trillion in [those] 10 years. [But] The debt stood ... -
වැරදි තොරතුරු ?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-14)In the month of February 2022, an article published in Dinamina carried a misleading headline as it stated that Sri Lanka has the lowest fuel prices in South Asia. In the body of the article, it has been stated that Sri ... -
Eran Wickramaratne: Reserves
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/24/2022)TRUE: Compared to 2019 and 2021, the decrease in foreign reserves is 80% in Sri Lanka. But other countries in the [South Asian] region have seen an escalation of their reserves. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 25 January 2022 -
සිරස්තලය සහ පුවත් අන්තර්ගතය ගැලපේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-01)In the month of January 2022, an article published on Aruna carried a misleading heading that does not match with the information in the content. Furthermore, it also used the term "duushanaya", which is a derogatory term ... -
Harsha de Silva: Inflation in Asia
(www.factcheck.lk , 3/3/2022)TRUE: We [Sri Lanka] have the highest inflation in Asia as of now. - Harsha de Silva, Ada Derana, 1 February 2022 -
"සුරූපී" බව පුවතට අදාළද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-17)In the month of February 2022, Aruna, Divaina, Lankadeepa and Mawbima reported on a dancer committing suicide, where her physical appearance was highlighted as "suruupi" (beautiful) which was irrelevant to the context. The ... -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02)During the months of January 2022 and February 2022, several articles published in Aruna, Silumina, Mawbima and Divaina contained the ethical violation of irrelevantly highlighting the physical appearance of women using ... -
Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE) in Sri Lanka November 2021
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-02-07)Covid-19 has shed light on ongoing disparities in vaccine access and confidence among different ethnic groups worldwide. Verité Research conducted a study to analyze social media content shared on Covid-19 vaccine confidence, ... -
State Funding for Maternity Leave in Sri Lanka - A No-brainer
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2020-09)Women in the 20-39 age cohort are uniquely and severely disadvantaged in the labour market in Sri Lanka. This disadvantage is linked to the current policy of placing the full cost of maternity leave benefits (MLBs) on ... -
Dullas Alahapperuma: IMF
(www.factcheck.lk , 2/17/2022)TRUE: It was in 1950 that we entered into an agreement with the IMF to obtain its membership. As a member country, from 1960 until now, we have carried out certain transactions with the IMF on 16 occasions. I recall that ... -
නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ: සුද්දා
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01)During the month of January 2022, several articles published in Lankadeepa (11-01-2022) and Mawbima used the term "sudda" which is a derogatory term used to describe foreigners that leads to discrimination of foreigners ... -
දිවි තොර කරගැනීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01)During the months of December 2021 and January 2022, Derana, Hiru, Sirasa, Divaina, Aruna, Mawbima, Daily News, Daily Mirror, Ada, The Island and Dinamina several articles published on suicide, which contained the following ... -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01)During the months of December 2021 and January 2022, several articles published in Mawbima, Divaina, Lankadeepa and Aruna described the physical appearance of women in different contexts as “ruumath”, “suruupi” as well as ... -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01)During the month of January 2022, several articles published in Divaina, Sunday Lankadeepa, Mawbima, Aruna, Sunday Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Sunday Divaina contained the ethical violation of not using a person first language ... -
“ගණිකාව” / “ගණිකා වෘත්තිය” ද? නැතිනම් ලිංගික ශ්රමිකයා / ලිංගික සේවය ද? ඔබ තෝරාගන්නේ කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01-21)In the month of January 2022, Sunday Divaina and Sunday Lankadeepa used the terms "ganikawa" and "ganika wruththiya", which are derogatory terms to describe sex workers and sex work respectively. -
“මත් ලෝලීන්” ද? මත්ද්රව්ය භාවිතා කරන්නන්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01-18)In the month of January 2022, articles published in Divaina used the term "mathlolihu", which is a derogatory term to describe those addicted to drugs. -
ඔබ තෝරාගන්නා සිරස්තලය මින් කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01-13)In the month of January 2022, an article published in Sunday Aruna used a sensational headline when reporting on a crocodile seen in sea near Colombo that they were preying on humans, which creates unnecessary fear in the ... -
මෙම පුවත සම්බන්ධව ඔබේ අදහස?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01-12)In the month of January 2022, Mawbima published an article on a group of women being arrested for violating quarantine regulations, which contained the ethical violations of gender discrimination and stereotyping women ... -
බාලවයස්කාරියක ලිංගික සේවයේ යෙදවීම පිළිබඳ පුවත පුවත්පත් තුනක වාර්තා වී තිබූ අයුරු
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01-07)In the month of December 2021, Articles published in Sunday Aruna, Sunday Divaina, and Mawbima on a young girl being exploited to become a sex worker, which contained the ethical violations of highlighting the ethnicity ... -
පවතින ආර්ථික අර්බුදය හමුවේ රජය විසින් සහන ලබාදෙන බවට පැවසෙන පුවත්, ප්රධාන රූපවාහිනී නාලිකා වාර්තා කළ ආකාරය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01-10)In the month of January 2022, different TV news reported the relief package given by the government in the face of the economic crisis differently. ITN and Rupavahini only showed the opinions of the people who were in ...