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සාවද්ය තොරතුරු සහ පාඨකයා නොමග යවන සිරස්තල
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-01)In the month of January 2018, articles published in Sunday Lankadeepa, Dinamina, Divaina, Lakbima, Rivira, Mawbima, Ada, Ceylon Today and Daily News contained misleading headlines and inaccurate reports about the statement ... -
අරන්තලාව භික්ෂු ඝාතන සංවත්සරය පිළිබඳ වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-01-14)On 14 January 2018, Sunday Divaina reported the anniversary of the Aranthalawa massacre which was carried out by the LTTE with photographs of corpses and blood that has the potential to evoke fear and shock and doesn't ... -
මේ පුවතට සැකකරුවන්ගේ වාර්ගිකත්වය වැදගත්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-01-07)On 7 January 2018 Sunday Lankadeepa published an article which contained Ethnicity when it is not relevant to the news. -
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-01)In the month of January 2018, articles published in Divaina and Mawbima included derogatory terms such as "kuddo (කුඩ්ඩෝ)", “ambettayek (ඇම්බැට්ටයෙක්)”, “dooshanaya (දූෂණය)”, “kasippuwa (කසිප්පුවා)”, “kudu aunty කුඩු ... -
මුදල් ගෙවන ලද දැන්වීමක් වෙනුවෙන් ලියන ලද ලිපියක්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-06)In the months of May and June 2019, Sunday Divaina, Sunday Aruna, Sunday Lankadeepa and Sunday Mawbima published articles that appeared to be advertisements/advertorials, indirectly promoting particular brands and companies. ... -
Ruwan Wijewardene: Debt increase
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/28/2022)TRUE: Some people in the present government say that the country has come to this situation because we [yahapalana government] took loans. 80% of the loans we took were used for settling the loans obtained by Mahinda ... -
Janaka Ratnayake: Fuel price reductions
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/4/2022)True: The price of petrol was reduced by 20 rupees last night. I had pointed out two weeks ago that the price of a litre of petrol… can be reduced by 150 rupees. – Janaka Ratnayake, PUCSL Press Release, 18 July 2022 -
Maithripala Sirisena: Aragalaya
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/21/2022)FALSE: Irrespective of who is there [in positions of power], an unconstitutional event has already taken place in the country… The other thing is that none of the 225 MPs, the current president or prime minister can take ... -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06)In the month of June 2022, articles published in Sunday Aruna, Sunday Mawbima, Mawbima, Dinamina and Lankadeepa contained several derogatory terms such as ‘kudda’, ‘mas wedda’, and ‘math loliya’, which are disrespectful ... -
අනවශ්ය ලෙස බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06)During the month of June 2022, an article in Dinamina irrelevantly highlighted the physical appearance of women using the term ‘surupi’, while an article on the same story in the Lankadeepa did not contain the above ethical ... -
වාර්ගිකත්වයන් අනවශ්ය ලෙස ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06)In the month of June 2022, Sinhala newspapers Silumina and Lankadeepa published articles that highlighted the ethnicity of suspects where it was irrelevant. In the month of June 2022, the Sinhala newspaper Divaina published ... -
දේශපාලන අර්බුදය, මහජන අරගලය සහ විරෝධතා
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06)In the month of June 2022, the following media ethics violations took place in relation to reporting of the political crisis. The tv channels Sirasa, Swarnawahini, Siyatha, Hiru, Derana, had the news coverage of the ... -
ලිංගික අපරාධ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06)In the month of June 2022, the following media ethics violations took place in relation to reporting of sexual crimes. An article published on Aruna reported a sexual crime by sensationalising it and using the word ... -
දිවි තොර කරගැනීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06)In the month of June 2022, the following media ethics violations took place in relation to suicide reporting. Articles published in Sinhala newspapers Divaina and Dinamina reported suicides without any helplines while ... -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Election costs
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/30/2022)BLATANTLY FALSE: You cannot go for elections now. The economy is getting really bad. We have to stabilise the economy. The cost of the last election was Rs.10 billion. It will cost Rs.20 billion this time. A candidate will ... -
Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe: Constitutional amendments
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/23/2022)FALSE: The executive presidential system can only be abolished by enacting a new constitution. This is because the president’s powers extend throughout the constitution. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, Sunday Lankadeepa, 28 May 2022 -
Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe: IMF
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/16/2022)TRUE: An Extended Fund Facility (EFF) - which allows longer repayment periods - may be best suited to the country, it typically requires deeper structural reforms. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Daily News, 19 April 2022. -
Ali Sabry: Tax revenue
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/9/2022)PARTLY TRUE: It [tax revenue as a percentage of GDP] decreased over time, under all these governments [every government since 1981] and today it has collapsed to a value of 8.7%. Mohamed Ali Sabry, Asian Mirror YouTube ... -
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: International Sovereign Bonds
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/26/2022)PARTLY TRUE: Every month we have to repay the loans that previous governments had obtained for various reasons. On ISBs, by 2015, we had only taken out USD 5 billion worth of them. During the time of the previous government, ... -
Kanchana Wijesekara: Fuel prices
(www.factcheck.lk , 5/24/2022)TRUE: Fuel Price will be revised from 3am today. Fuel pricing formula that was approved by the cabinet was applied to revise the prices. Price revision includes all costs incurred in importing, unloading, distribution to ...