Media: Recent submissions
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GMOA: COVID-19 Statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/2/2020)FALSE: “We are in a worst situation compared to Italy at the end of the first 7 days (from 1st Local Case). Peak of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka can be expected during New Year Season if we do not take more aggressive decisions ... -
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Yahapalanaya revenue increase
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/29/2020)PARTLY TRUE: When the Yahapalana government came into power, state revenue was LKR 1.05 trillion. Our government doubled this income to LKR 2.1 trillion within 5 years. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Lankadeepa, 6 February 2020 -
Siripala Gamlath: UNHRC Resolution
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/19/2020)FALSE: The other dangerous consequence of co-sponsoring [UNHRC Resolution 30/1] is that this country’s ‘war heroes’ can be taken before an international court at any instance. - Siripala Gamlath, Divaina, Aruna, 25 February 2020 -
Kanchana Wijesekera: Forensic Audit Report
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/5/2020)FALSE: "Around 96 percent of the Rs.10,000 million ‘loss’ highlighted by the Forensic Audit Report into Bond transactions from the period 2005-2015 actually went to several government institutions which benefitted immensely. ... -
Sinhala Press Coverage of COVID-19: January-March 2020
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-03)On 03 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the media ethics guidelines while reporting on COVID-19 -
COVID-19 and Prejudiced Points
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-02)On 01 April 2020, Aruna ran an article quoting a vague source which claimed that hiding correct information is a trait of an individual's religion (which was also the religion of a COVID-19 patient) -
The news on ITN: Is there a basis for it? Is it not misleading?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-02)On 26 March 2020, ITN's 09.30 pm news ran a segment on the presidential pardon granted to Sunil Rathnayake. In this segment, Rathnayake's arrest and sentence was described as being part of the alleged 'Ranaviru Dadayama' ... -
Conspiracy theories presented without sources
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-01)On 31 March 2020, Divaina published an article containing a conspiracy theory regarding COVID-19 that had been refuted by factchecking sites. Divaina did not cite sources to back up its claim. -
Eran Wickramaratne: All Borrowings Used to Repay Debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/22/2019)PARTLY TRUE: Total borrowings by the Government have been completely used to repay debt. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 19 June 2019 -
Udaya Gammanpila: Prison Expenditure
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/27/2019)PARTLY TRUE: Today, most people in prisons are those imprisoned for being unable to pay fines. To maintain a prisoner, the government spends Rs. 671 per person per day. Accordingly, a person who is imprisoned for being ... -
Mangala Samaraweera: Macroeconomic indicators
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/20/2019)PARTLY TRUE: …macroeconomic indicators showed positive trends with the country’s $7.6 billion foreign reserves, capable of covering four months of imports, the trade deficit declining to a five year low in February and Sri ... -
Namal Rajapaksa: Education
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/21/2019)FALSE: Today 560,000 sit the Ordinary Level examination. 340,000 sit the Advanced Level examination. Around 65,000 – 100,000 pass the examination. Approximately 28,000 go to university. - Namal Rajapaksa, Mawbima, 11 July 2019 -
Dinesh Gunawardena: IDP Resettlement
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/25/2020)PARTLY TRUE: “Sri Lanka also made significant progress in the resettlement of over 440,000 IDPs … presently it has risen to 93.76%.” - Dinesh Gunawardena, Daily FT, 28 February 2020 -
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Mihin and Sri Lankan Airlines debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/6/2020)FALSE: Through SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, every person in the country has been made a debtor to the value of LKR 12,500. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Divaina, 28 August 2019 -
Udaya Gammanpila: National anthem in Tamil
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/30/2020)FALSE: [According to Article 7 of the constitution] Sri Lanka's national anthem is "Sri Lanka Maatha"… if anything other than the words of "Sri Lanka Maatha" contained in the third schedule is considered to be the national ... -
Sajith Premadasa: Women in politics
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/24/2020)TRUE: …[we] have not been able to increase representation [of women] in parliament. Even today, representation of women in our parliament is at a level of 5.8%. Our government was able to increase representation of women ... -
Keheliya Rambukwella: GDP Growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/16/2020)TRUE: When President Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country in 2005, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was USD 20 billion. In ten years, we increased the GDP to USD 80 billion. - Keheliya Rambukwella, Dinamina, 4 December 2019 -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Transport
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/9/2020)PARTLY TRUE: Only 52% of our country uses public transport… 48% of the people use private transportation. - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Daily News, 30 November 2019 -
Moves to remove law on submiting family background of female migrant workers
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 1/28/2020)The manner in which Sinhala and Tamil press reported on the moves by the government to remove laws where women who seek jobs abroad have to provide details of family background. -
Political Prisoners
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/19/2019)The manner in which the Sinhala and Tamil press reported on the hunger strike launched by eight political prisoners in the Anuradhapura prison.