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    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: estate workers 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 2/21/2019)
      TRUE: “They [estate workers] spend 50 percent of their earnings on food." - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 25 January 2019, Daily News

    • Sisira Jayakody: TNA dual citizenship 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 8/2/2019)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: We know that some of the MPs of the Tamil National Alliance have dual citizenship. - Sisira Jayakody, 2 January 2019, Divaina

    • Ethics Eye: Bukiya - 27 February 2020 

      Verite Research (2020-02-27)
      ඉරිදා මව්බිම පුවත්පතේ පළවන 'බුකිය' නම් වන කොලමෙන් උපුටා ගත් කොටස් කිහිපයක් මෙහි දක්වා ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අවධානයට පාත්‍ර විය යුතු කරුණු කිහිපයක් සාකච්ඡා කෙරේ.

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: economic growth 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 12/10/2018)
      FALSE: In the nine years I was in power, I increased the GDP per capita of this country by a multiple of three. In that period, the economic growth rate was 7.4%. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, 25 November 2018, Derana TV

    • Maithripala Sirisena: Undernourishment 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 1/9/2019)
      FALSE: Around 16 or 17 percent of Sri Lankans are undernourished. - Maithripala Sirisena, 18 October 2018, Lankadeepa

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Bond Commission report 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 11/14/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: In early February 2018, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna District MP and party spokesman M.A. Sumanthiran sabotaged an adjournment debate on the treasury bond scam report. The newspaper went on to say ...

    • Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: mobile phone taxes 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 1/9/2019)
      PARTLY TRUE: When a mobile phone user in our country pays Rs. 5,000 [as the mobile phone bill], Rs. 1,600 of it goes towards paying taxes. - ANura Priyadharshana Yapa, 26 October 2018, Divaina

    • MA Sumanthiran: Tamil journalists 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 12/20/2018)
      PARTLY TRUE: If I remember correctly, [in the past 20 years] 14 Tamil journalists have been murdered. - MA Sumanthiran, 25 October 2018, Mawbima

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Singapore FTA 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 11/19/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: As a result of the gazette notification 2069/2, nearly 4000 products can be imported with zero tariffs as per the Sri Lanka–Singapore Free Trade Agreement. - Bandula Gunawardana, 17 October 2018, Divaina

    • Sunil Handunnetti: rural population 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 12/5/2018)
      PARTLY TRUE: 74% of the population of Sri Lanka lives a rural lifestyle/in a rural setting. - Sunil Handunnetti, 15 October 2018, Divaina

    • Mangala Samaraweera: Media freedom 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 11/2/2018)
      TRUE: Sri Lanka’s rank in the World Press Freedom Index has moved from 165 to 131. - Mangala Samaraweera, 28 September 2018, Divaina

    • Harin Fernando: employment trends 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 10/12/2018)
      TRUE: Minister Fernando pointed out that employment has increased from 7.7 million in 2014 to 8.2 million in 2017. - Harin Fernando, 3 October 2018, Daily News

    • Patali Champika Ranawaka per capita income 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 10/11/2018)
      FALSE: Today, it [Sri Lanka] is a middle income country with a per capita income of US $ 13,000. This is the highest per capita income in the region. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, 3 October 2018, Daily News

    • Mangala Samaraweera Cigarette tax income 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 10/19/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: A tax income of 1,800 crore (Rs. 18 billion) has been lost due to reduced cigarette sales. - Mangala Samaraweera, 12 September 2018, Lankadeepa

    • Is it appropriate to use the term "mistress"? 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-01-03)
      On 31 December 2019 Daily Mirror published a news item which included the term "mistress". Ethics Eye pointed out that The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a prominent international media and communications organisation ...

    • 10 years since the end of the war: how did the front page headings of Sinhala and Tamil newspapers report on it 

      Divide;
      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 5/20/2019)
      This infographic provides the differences in the reportage between the Sinhala and Tamil press.

    • Gap between Sinhala and Tamil press reporting: 22-28 July 2019 

      Media Team (Veritè Research, 2019-07)
      Infographic depiction of the difference between the Sinhala and Tamil press from 2019 July 22-28.

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake - Provincial GDP = අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක - පළාත් දළ දේශීය නිෂ්පාදිතය = அனுரா குமார திசாநாயக்க - மாகாண மொத்த உள்நாட்டு உற்பத்தி 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 10/4/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: According to the Annual Report published by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), the Western Province contributes to 52% of the GDP of the country…The rest of the provinces in the country collectively ...

    • Maithripala Sirisena - Judicial Independence 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 10/17/2018)
      PARTLY TRUE: Sri Lanka is a country with a strong democratic foundation and the present government has also strengthened the independence of the judiciary. A recent survey on independence of the judiciary shows that Sri ...

    • Ranil Wickremesinghe - Mercer Index 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 9/9/2018)
      TRUE: Although cities across Asia are growing apace, only three (Singapore, Tokyo, and Kobe) are in the top 50 of the Mercer Quality of Living Index. Colombo was the highest ranked South Asian city, but still only stood ...