• රූපවාහිනි නාලිකාවල පළවූ පුවත් සිරස්තල තුළින් ඉස්මතුවූ මාධ්‍ය ධ්‍රැවීකරණය 

  Ethics Eye;
  Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)

  On 27 June 2023 Sinhala TV news channels reported on the President's statement about the domestic debt restructuring process. Rupavahini, Sirasa, Derana and Swarnawahini highlighted on the debt restructuring process will ...

• අඟුරුවාතොට ම‍රණය: "රූමත්" හෝ "හැඩකාර" බව අදාළ වන්නේද? 

  Ethics Eye;
  Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)

  On 23rd and 24th July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Aruna, Sathi Aga Aruna, Divaina and Lankadeepa reported on the death of a mother and her baby. The papers referred to the mother's appearance by using words such as "රූමත්" ...

• හැඟීම් කළඹවන සුළු වාර්තාකරණයක්? 

  Ethics Eye;
  Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)

  On 24 July 2023, Sinhala newspapers published articles on an incident in Vavuniya where a group of masked persons attacked a home and set in on fire, which resulted in the death of a female. The newspapers Mawbima, ...

• කාන්තාවන්ගේ බාහිර ස්වරූපය අනවශ්‍ය ලෙස ඉස්මතු කිරීම 

  Ethics Eye;
  Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)

  On the 3rd of September 2023, the Sinhala newspaper Sathi Aga Aruna published an article surrounding the death of a female servant who had been working for a businesswoman. The newspaper had referred to the deceased female's ...

• පේරාදෙණිය ශික්ෂණ රෝහලේදී එන්නත් ආසාත්මිකතාවයකින් සිදුවුවා යැයි කියන තරුණියකගේ මරණය: රූපවාහිනී පුවත් වාර්තාකරණ 

  Ethics Eye;
  Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)

  In July 2023, Sinhala TV channels covered the funeral of a girl who had passed away at the Peradeniya hospital. The reason for her death was because of complications that arose due to a vaccine that had been administered ...

• අපහාසාත්මක යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම තුළින් පුද්ගලයින් වෙනස් කොට සැලකීම 

  Ethics Eye;
  Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)

  From 10 to 30 June 2023, Sinhala newspapers Dinamina, Divaina and Aruna published articles which referred to drug addicts as "කුඩ්ඩන් " (kuddan). On 19 July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Dinamina and Aruna published articles ...

• හැඟීම් කළඹවනසුළු සිරස්තල, නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම 

  Ethics Eye;
  Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)

  On 7 July 2023, Sinhala newspaper Aruna published three news reports i.e. arrest of 58 people including 39 women in Jaffna after conflict between some groups, arrest of three young women at a brothel run in a building ...

• Wimal Weerawansa: Income and Wealth Inequality 

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  FactCheck (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-03-07)

  PARTLY TRUE: The wealthiest 1% in Sri Lanka enjoy 31% of the national income. Similarly, the 10% at the highest stratum of society, inclusive of that 1%, enjoy 64% of the national income […]. After that, the 50% at the ...

• Dr. P.K.G Harishchandra: Reserves 

  FactCheck.lk;P0099
  FactCheck (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-29)

  PARTLY TRUE: “[…] We've been able to build up reserves to 4.4 billion by the end of last year.” Assistant Governor Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) P. K. G. Harischandra, CBSL Monetary Policy Review No. 01 of 2024, 23 ...

• Udaya Gammanpila: Presidential Election Date 

  FactCheck.lk;P0097
  FactCheck (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-15)

  TRUE: According to the constitution of our country, [the] presidential election must be held for certain between 18th September and 18th October 2024. Udaya Gammanpila, Udaya Gammanpila’s YouTube Channel, 8 January 2024

• Ranjith Siyambalapitiya: Pensions and Aswesuma 

  FactCheck.lk;P0096
  FactCheck (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-08)

  TRUE: [A group of] 4 million are watching the government expectantly. 2 million out of that are government employees and pensioners who are expecting an increase in salaries and the other 2 million are those who have been ...

• Mahinda Rajapaksa: Debt-to-GDP 

  FactCheck.lk;P0095
  FactCheck (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-01)

  PARTLY TRUE: My government reduced the debt-to-GDP ratio from 90% at the end of 2005 to 69% at the end of 2014. Mahinda Rajapaksa, NewsFirst.lk, 8 December 2023

• නතාශාට ඇප: සිරස්තලයේ අවධානය කොයිබටද? 

  Ethics Eye;
  Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)

  On 6 July 2023, the Sinhala newspaper Divaina published an article about Nathasha Edirisooriya receiving bail. But the manner in which the headline and sub-headline have been framed, does not give an accurate account of ...

• "කරදර කිරීමක්" ද? "ලිංගික අපයෝජනයක්" ද? 

  Ethics Eye;
  Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)

  In the month of July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Dinamina and Aruna published articles that trivialised sex crimes. On the 10th of July, Mawbima and Aruna reported the sexual abuse of novice monks at ...

• බාලවයස්කරුවන්ගේ අනන්‍යතාව හෙළිකිරීම, හැඟීම් කළඹවන සිරස්තල සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම 

  Ethics Eye;
  Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)

  The article published in Dinamina on 21 July 2023, violated media ethical guidelines by revealing the identity of 16 year old students and using sensational headlines.

• බාල වයස්කාර දැරියට දොස් පැවරීමක් 

  Ethics Eye;
  Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)

  On July 10, 2023, Aruna and Dinamina Sinhala newspapers had reported how a 14-year-old girl who had told her home that she was going to tuition classes was found by the police 8 months after she went missing. The headline ...

• Eran Wickramaratne - Ministry of Defence Expenditure 

  FactCheck.lk;P0094
  FactCheck (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-01-26)

  TRUE: When considering the Ministry of Defence, we spent 7% of the total budget for 2022 on it [Ministry of Defence] ... 60% of that goes to pay wages…Sri Lanka is one out of ten countries that has the greatest number of ...

• Ashok Abeysinghe: Foreign Departures 

  FactCheck.lk;P0101
  FactCheck (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-03-14)

  PARTLY TRUE: 500 individuals from our country go abroad on a daily basis. In the recent past, between 180,000 and 200,000 individuals per month have gone abroad. The reason why they go abroad is because it’s difficult to ...

• Eran Wickramaratne - Passport Ranking 

  FactCheck.lk;P0098
  FactCheck (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-22)

  PARTLY TRUE: [The] Sri Lankan passport [is] …97th among global passports…What does it mean? It means that…you have access to 40 countries without a visa. Sri Lanka has very little access to other countries to get a visa ...

• J.C Alawathuwala: Food expenses 

  FactCheck.lk;P0093
  FactCheck (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-01-18)

  PARTLY TRUE: In 2019, the expenditure on the food of an individual living in Colombo or elsewhere in Sri Lanka was between Rs. 6,000 and Rs. 6,500. By 2023, this has increased to between Rs.16,000 to Rs.17,000. That is, ...

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