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Wigneswaran: Unemployment disparity
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2020)FALSE: “Unemployment in our war-affected areas have exceeded 10% while the national average proportion of unemployment is less than 6%.” - C. V. Wigneswaran, Daily FT, 12 September 2020 -
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 -
Wimal Weerasansa: Total Export Income
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/4/2023)FALSE: The total export income has reduced by almost 10% this year when compared to last year. This is a huge reduction. Therefore, it is clear that the economic strategy the government is following under the guidance of ... -
Wimal Weerawansa: Income and Wealth Inequality
(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 ... -
Wimal Weerawansa: Industrial Income and Exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/31/2021)TRUE: Industries occupy a special place in the national manufacturing process in Sri Lanka which is about 26.4% of the national GDP, and only a very low percentage of about 10% contributes to exports. - Wimal Weerawansa, ... -
Wimal Weerawansa: MCC agreement
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/13/2019)FALSE: …last week, the [US] Millennium Challenge Agreement was signed in Parliament. Once signed, a special economic corridor will be built from Trincomalee to Colombo Port. - Wimal Weerawansa, Ada, 7 November 2019 -
Wimal Weerawansa: Net Export Earnings
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/27/2020)FALSE: For the first time since the open economy was introduced in 1977 by J.R. Jayawardena, the country’s export earnings exceeded import expenditure. - Wimal Weerawansa, Mawbima,13/07/2020 -
Wimalaweera Dissanayake: Health sector
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/7/2023)PARTLY TRUE: Even in the midst of all the shortcomings, it’s Sri Lanka that has the best health service in South Asia. Wimalaweera Dissanayake, The Life Traveler, 19 July 2023 -
World Press Freedom Day
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-05-03)This infographic depicts SL's rank/position in the World Press Freedom index. -
(අ)පක්ෂපාතී සිරස්තලයක්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-22)In the month of February, an article published in Sunday Aruna used a prejudicial and judgmental heading that views the "Jehovah" community in negative light based on their beliefs and practices. -
(අ)සංවේදී සිරස්තල සහ වාර්තාකරණ?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09)During the month of September 2022, Sunday Aruna reported of a woman abandoning a baby by calling her a demon (‘Mohini’), which is insensitive reporting. Additionally, Hiru TV also reported of a murder while questioning ... -
අකැප ඇඳුම් හා අකැප ආහාර?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-03-31)In the month of March 2022, Divaina published an article about a woman who offered food to the theras at a temple. It criticised the woman, saying that her attire was inappropriate. This amounts to unethical media behaviour, ... -
අගතිකාරී ආකල්ප සහ වාර්ගිකත්වය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-09)In the month of November 2021, an article published in Sunday Aruna highlighted the ethnicity of a woman as "Tamil" and promoted social prejudices surrounding skin colour by describing her physical appearance and skin colour. -
අගතිගාමී සිරස්තල
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08-19)Article from August, 2020 mentioned headline as "Corona Student" but in the content of the article, person were appropriately described as "student who contracted COVID19. -
අගතිගාමී සිරස්තල
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08-10)Several articles from August, 2020 mentioned headlines as "Corona mothers" but some articles these persons were appropriately described as "mothers who contracted COVID19. -
අගතිගාමී සිරස්තල
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08-05)During August, 2020 article published in Lankadeepa mentioned headlines mentioned "Corona mothers" and some articles these persons were appropriately described as "mothers who contracted #COVID19" -
අගතියට පත් වූ අය හට වරද පැටවීමක්?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-08-08)On the 6 August 2023 article published in Sunday Aruna used the term "රූමත්" (Rumath) to highlight physical appearance where it was irrelevant and blamed the murder victims, stating they lacked a good character certificate. -
අගමැතිවරයා සහ චීන හිටපු විදෙස් කටයුතු ඇමතිවරයාගේ ඡායාරූප: සදොස් ඡායාරූප සහ නිවැරදිකිරීම්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-10)An edited and false photograph of our prime minister and the former minister of foreign affairs of China by the Tamil newspaper Virakesari and the Daily FT on 11th and 10th of October 2020 respectively. But DailyFT apologised ... -
අඟුරුවාතොට මරණය: "රූමත්" හෝ "හැඩකාර" බව අදාළ වන්නේද?
(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" ... -
අජාන් බ්රහ්මවංසෝ හිමිට ශ්රී ලංකාවේදී ගුවන් යානය මගහැරීම පිළිබඳව පළවූ උන්වහසේගේ අදහස් රූපවාහිනී නාලිකා විකාශය කළ ආකාරය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-06)The buddhist clergyman Ajaan Brahamvansoo had to remain for 12 hours due to his flight getting grounded at the Bandaranayake International Airport. On 04 June, Swaranawahini and on 05 June Sirasa broadcast footage during ...