Browsing by Subject "Misinformation"
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අසමානකම් දුරු කර ඒඩ්ස් අවසන් කරමු: ලෝක ඒඩ්ස් දිනය 2021
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-08)In the month of December 2021, an article published in Lankadeepa Online used a misleading and misinforming headline when reporting on HIV/AIDS, which misinforms the reader that HIV/AIDS is only transmitted sexually, ... -
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 ... -
කරුණු පැහැදිලි කිරීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-06)Articles published in Sunday Divaina (6 May 2018) and Divaina (11 and 19 June 2022) and Lankadeepa (18 June 2022) contained inaccurate news and information. However, Sunday Divaina and Divaina (for its article published ... -
කරුණු පැහැදිලි කිරීම හා නිවැරදි කිරීම - මෙය ප්රමාණවත් ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-07)On 5 July 2018, Mawbima published an article about the benefits of the customs officers on the front page of the paper, but the information was distorted to make it look like a financial scam. The article which contained ... -
"කරුණු පැහැදිලි කිරීම හා නිවැරදි කිරීම" - මෙය ප්රමාණවත් ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-05)On 1 May 2019, Daily Mirror in its ‘Political Gossip’ column published a false report about Mahinda Rajapaksa and Sumanthiran. An apology was later published in the Daily Mirror (May 2, 2019), which was also false, but it ... -
"කරුණු පැහැදිලි කිරීම" - මෙය ප්රමාණවත් ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01-27)In the month of January 2022, an article published on the front page of Daily Mirror (24-01-2022) mischaracterised a speech made by Sajith Premadasa, which was later clarified by Sajith Premadasa. The article which contained ... -
දුස්තොරතුරු හඳුනාගැනීම, දුස්තොරතුරු වලින් ආරක්ෂා වීම සඳහා වැදගත් වන උපදෙස් කිහිපයක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)This infographic contains 4 tips to help stop the spread of misinformation online, and to protect oneself from it. The tips include checking before sharing, looking for sources, checking attached photographs, and not ... -
"නිවැරදි කිරීම" - මෙය ප්රමාණවත් ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-08)On 26 August 2019, Mawbima published an article quoting Speaker Karu Jayasuriya which was later clarified by the Speaker’s Media Unit as a false report. The article which contained the clarification was published on 27 ... -
නොමඟ යවන පුවත් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10-12)In the month of October, Sunday Divaina published misleading headline and misleading information on Pandora papers that 93 Sri Lankans were among the individuals exposed by the Papers, whereas 93 was the total count of Sri ... -
පොහොර තහනම පිළිබඳ අද දින පුවත් සිරස්තල
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-08-04)In the month of August 2021 articles published in Aruna, Lankadeepa, Ada, Dinamina and Mawbima reported on the fertiliser ban in different ways. -
මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම කඩවීම් වළක්වා ගැනීමට නම්...
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10-11)In the month of October 2021, articles published in Lankadeepa and Lankadeepa Online contained several media ethical violations. On October 1, Lankadeepa published a photo of a mass gathering, claiming that it was the crowd ... -
රුසියානු- යුක්රේන අර්බුදය 2022: වැරදි ඡායාරූප
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-03-03)In the month of March 2022, an article published in Divaina used old photographs from past incidents to report on the Ukraine-Russia crisis 2022, which is a media ethics violation as it misinforms and misleads the public. -
විවාහක යුවළක් ද? "අනියම් යුවලක්"ද? ඔබ තෝරාගන්නා පුවත් වාර්තාව කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10-05)In the month of October 2021, Mawbima, Sunday Divaina and Sunday Lankadeepa ran mismatching news articles on a murder. Sunday Divaina and Sunday Lankadeepa reported that a dispute between a married couple had ended in the ... -
විශ්සවසනීය මූලාශ්ර සහිත සහ රහිත වාර්තාකරණ - සරසවි සිසුවෙක්ද? නැති ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 5 Mawbima and on October 6 Divaina and Dinamina violated the media ethical guideline of reporting inaccurate information and not getting information checked via reliable sources. Divaina has referred to the ... -
ශ්රී ලංකාව මාධ්ය නිදහස අතින් කෙතරම් පහළට වැටී තිබේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-05)In the month of May 2022, an article published in Mawbima reported that Sri Lanka's ranking in the media freedom index has dropped by 29 places, whereas according to Reporters Without Borders, the ranking has only dropped ... -
සාවද්ය වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-05-19)In the month of May 2021 an article published in Mawbima reported false information regarding Indians throwing statues of their gods into a river after they allegedly failed to protect them from the Coronavirus. -
සාවද්ය සහ නිරවද්ය වාර්තාකරණ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)During the month of October in 2022, news published in Lankadeepa, Dinamina, Mawbima, Ada and Aruna violated the media ethical guideline of reporting inaccurate information. On October 13, Lankadeepa and Dinamina failed ... -
"සීනි 20කින් නගී" - සිරස්තලයේ සහ අන්තර්ගතයේ ඇත්තේ එකම අදහසද? - පාඨකයා නොමග යවන සිරස්තල සහ නිරවද්ය නොවූ තොරතුරු
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-09-19)On 19 September 2018, article published in Mawbima contained misleading headline which is a violation of media ethical guidelines.