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දිවි තොරකරගැනීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම කඩවීම් පුවත්පත් හා රූපවාහිනී මාධ්ය වාර්තා කර ඇත්තේ කෙසේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12)During the months of December 2021 and November 2021, Dinamina, Lankadeepa, Aruna, Divaina, Mawbima, Hiru, Ada, Silumina, Swarnavahini and Derana published several news on suicide, which contained the following ethical ... -
Nihal Thalduwa: Criticism of the President
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/5/2022)FALSE: It is prohibited to publish and exchange statements that insult the president on social media or any other media. The police is vested with the authority to take legal action against those who do so. – SSP Nihal ... -
Keheliya Rambukwella: Vaccination ranking
(www.factcheck.lk , 2/10/2022)FALSE: In terms of administering both doses of the vaccine, as of yesterday [January 1], we rank 4th in the world; as the highest percentage from the eligible population, we rank 4th out of 194 countries in the world.- ... -
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Foreign Loans
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2022)FALSE: I have not taken a cent in foreign loans during my two years in office. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Newswire, 7 January 2022, -
Bandula Gunawardane: Total Exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/3/2022)PARTLY TRUE: Sri Lanka increased exports by 23% amidst challenging environment faced both locally and globally. Total exports are USD 12.3 billion in 2020 and USD15.12 billion in 2021. - Bandula Gunawardane, Official ... -
Lasantha Alagiyawanna: LPG Standards
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/13/2022)FALSE: This [LP gas] problem arose - especially this problem of the butane and propane composition - [because] the composition is not mentioned in the standards that have been formulated by the SLSI. - Lasantha Alagiyawanna, ... -
"මෙහෙකාරිය" ද? ගෘහ සේවිකාව ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-06)An article published in Lankadeepa in the month of November 2021 and an article published in Aruna in the month of December 2021 used the term "mehekariya" which is a derogatory and backward term to describe domestic ... -
පකිස්තානයේ සියල්කොට් හිදී ශ්රී ලාංකිකයෙකු ඝාතනය වීම: සිදුවීම ආවරණයේදී ඝාතනයේ සංවේදී දර්ශන පෙන්වූ සහ නොපෙන්වූ මාධ්ය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-07)In the month of December 2021, ITN, Sirasa, Swarnavahini, Derana, Daily News, Mawbima, Aruna, Divaina, Dinamina, Hiru, Rupavahini, The Island, The Morning, Lankadeepa, Ceylon Today, Daily Mirror and Ada covered the news ... -
අසමානකම් දුරු කර ඒඩ්ස් අවසන් කරමු: ලෝක ඒඩ්ස් දිනය 2021
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-08)In the month of December 2021, an article published in Lankadeepa Online used a misleading and misinforming headline when reporting on HIV/AIDS, which misinforms the reader that HIV/AIDS is only transmitted sexually, ... -
සාධාරණීකරණය කෙරෙන අපරාධ?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-03)In the month of December 2021, an article published in Aruna used a headline that justified the crime reported in the news, which misleads the reader and blames the victim and normalises crimes such as acid throwing. -
නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ භාවිතය - කුඩ්ඩා
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12)During the month of December 2021, Divaina and Lankadeepa published articles which used derogatory terms in their headlines to describe persons addicted to drugs and drug traffickers, such as "Kudda" and "Kudu kella", which ... -
මානසික ආබාධයක් ද? "උන්මන්තක භාවයක්" ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-15)In the month of December 2021, an article published in Aruna contained contradictory information in the headline and the content. While the headline described the individual involved in an incident as one suffering from a ... -
"ඔමික්රෝන් කත ද?" ඔමික්රෝන් වැලඳුණු කත ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-09)In the month of December 2021, an article published in Lankadeepa used the term "Omicron katha", which discriminates and blames a patient contracting the COVID-19 virus. Meanwhile, Dinamina published an article on the same ... -
"ගණිකාව" ද? ලිංගික ශ්රමික කාන්තාව ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-14)In the month of December 2021, articles published in Mawbima and Aruna used the term "Ganikawa", which is a derogatory term to describe sex workers that leads to social discrimination. -
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. -
කාන්තාවන් කොන් කරන සහ වෙනස් කොට සලකන වාර්තාකරණ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)During the month of November 2021, Aruna, Mawbima, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Virakesari, Thinakaran, The Island, Daily News, Sirasa and Hiru published several news which contained the ethical violation of discriminating women ... -
සුද්දෝ වෙනුවට විදෙස් ජාතිකයන්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)In the month of November 2021, an article published in Dinamina used the term "suddo" to describe foreigners, which is a term that discriminates foreigners based on their skin colour. -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිතා කරමු!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)In the month of November 2021, an article published in Mawbima used a headline which discriminated persons with disabilities by identifying them as "disabled persons", thus not incorporating a person first language. -
බංගලියාද? බංගලිදේශ ජාතිකයාද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)In the month of November 2021, two articles published in Lankadeepa Online and Divaina used the term "Bangaliya" (බංගලියා) which negatively describes a Bangladeshi national, which thus is a derogatory term. In the meantime, ... -
ඝාතනයට ලක් වූ තරුණියගේ ඡායාරූපය පුවතට අවශ්ය යැයි ඔබ සිතන්නේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)In the month of November 2021, two articles published in Divaina and Mawbima included the photo of a victim of a previous murder by associating it with the discovery of human remains elsewhere, which is a media ethics ...