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Anura Kumara Dissanayaka: Foreign remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-08-21)TRUE: Even today, our country is running on the foreign currency sent by you [Sri Lankans living overseas]. […] our country has gas, fuel, and medicines, firstly because of the foreign exchange you all send, and secondly, ... -
Dullas Alahapperuma: Children with disabilities
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-08-07)TRUE: The latest census indicates that 34 percent of school-age children with disabilities in this country do not receive even a basic education [...]. However, these statistics are from 2012, from the last census. Dullas ... -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Foreign loans taken
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-07-31)PARTLY TRUE: Our country’s total foreign debt is USD 37 billion. However, this person [the one who posted on social media] is citing a false figure... [He] claims that we obtained loans of up to [USD] 100 billion [from USD ... -
Hesha Withanage: SriLankan Airlines losses
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-06-05)TRUE: By the end of the 2023 financial year, the losses of SriLankan Airlines amounted to Rs. 609 billion […] Every family in this country, […] has been placed in a position where they have to pay Rs. 107,000. Hesha ... -
Sunanda Madduma Bandara: Unemployment
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-05-29)PARTLY TRUE: The country's unemployment rate rose to 5.5% in 2020. It was the highest unemployment rate experienced by Sri Lanka since 2009. The government was able to bring that figure down to 4.7% by 2023. Sunanda Madduma ... -
Thushara Indunil: Increase in costs
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-05-22)FALSE: The cost of many goods and services increased to levels that couldn’t be borne [by the people]. The cost of many goods and services increased by 300% [sic] when compared to 2020. That means, the cost of goods and ... -
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Borrowing loans
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-05-08)TRUE: Even though the @CBSL reported that a $ 2 billion loan repayment was made, $ 3 billion was borrowed from multilateral sources during the same period. Patali Champika Ranawaka, Patali Champika Ranawaka’s X account, ... -
Sunanda Madduma Bandara: Sri Lanka's real growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-05-01)FALSE: Sri Lanka’s per capita GDP was USD 140 in 1959. Following the economic crisis, in 2020, it stood at USD 3,474. This also shows that there has been a massive change in the income level of the country as well as the ... -
Anupa Pasqual: University admission
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-04-24)FALSE: Only 40,000 of these 400,000 students [that enter Grade 1] are given the opportunity to go to university. 90% do not get into university and are left to drift aimlessly. Anupa Pasqual, Parliament of Sri Lanka ... -
Vijitha Herath: Presidential budget
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-04-03)PARTLY TRUE: Despite this economic crisis and…the fact that the government reiterated that it would slash expenses, the president’s expenditure head has been… [increased to] LKR 3,779 million…If we consider the amount that ... -
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: Tax cuts
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-07-24)BLATANTLY FALSE: That is an utter lie. […] The COVID-19 pandemic spread in the country by 2020 and the importation of vehicles was halted along with that. […] The country was under lockdown for six months and certain sectors ... -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Unbroken nine year economic boom
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-07-14)PARTLY TRUE: Our management of the economy resulted in an unbroken nine-year economic boom. We had no difficulty in paying off our debts […] Mahinda Rajapaksa, EconomyNext, 12 May 2024 -
Lakshman Kiriella: Domestic debt restructuring
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-07-03)FALSE: No other country in the world has taken 2.5 years like this [Sri Lanka] for debt restructuring. Every country completed that process in 1 or 1.5 years. Lakshman Kiriella, Parliament, 22 May 2024 -
Rohana Bandara: Budget promises
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-06-12)PARTLY TRUE: If [the president] has a dream, there should be a systematic plan to turn that dream into reality. He presented a budget in 2023 to this country’s parliament. It turned into a false statement where 94% of that ... -
Ashok Abeysinghe: Micro, small and medium enterprises
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-06-19)PARTLY TRUE: 237,143 small and medium enterprises have been closed down within these three years alone [2020-22] due to the economic crisis. Ashok Abeysinghe, Parliament, 7 May 2024 -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Current account
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-03-27)TRUE: "By the end of 2022, the current account deficit of the balance of payments was 1.9% of the GDP. We were able to achieve a surplus in the current account of the balance of payments by the end of 2023. This was the ... -
රාජ්ය අමාත්ය සනත් නිශාන්ත පෙරේරා ජීවිතක්ෂයට පත් වූ හදිසි අනතුර සහ අවමංගල්ය කටයුතු පිළිබඳව සිංහල පුවත්පත් හා රූපවාහිනී පුවත් වාර්තාකරණ ඔස්සේ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-26)On January 25 and 26, 2024, multiple newspapers, including Aruna, Dinamina, Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Divaina, and TV news such as Hiru, Rupavahini, Derana, Sirasa, Swarnavahini, and Siyatha, disclosed the identities of Sanath ... -
මාර්ගගත ක්රමවල සුරක්ෂිතභාවය පිළිබඳ පනත් කෙටුම්පත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී සම්මත වීම සිංහල සහ ඉංග්රීසි පුවත්පත් මුල්පිටු සිරස්තල දැක්වූ ආකාරය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-25)On January 25, 2024, Ethics Eye posted a post showing the front page headlines from Sinhala and English newspapers about the passing of the Online Safety Bill. The post did not focus on any ethical issues; instead, it ... -
මෙම එකිනෙකට වෙනස් සිරස්තල ගැන ඔබ සිතන්නේ කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-24)On January 14, 2024, the local media Sathi Aga Aruna reported on the appointment of French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal with the headline: "The New Prime Minister of France: Macron’s Boy; 34 Years Old; A Homosexual." In ... -
ස්පා කෙල්ල? සම්බාහන සේවිකාව? ඔබ තෝරාගන්නේ කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-26)On January 24 2024, Aruna and Lankadeepa newspapers reported on an incident involving a person stealing money from a masseuse's bank account. In their coverage, the masseuse was referred to as "ස්පා කෙල්ල (Spa Kella)" and ...