Several articles published in June 2020 violated media ethics guidelines for reporting on suicide.

Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa and Mawbima used uncivilized vocabulary with regard to drug addicts in their papers during the last week of August 2020, which did not comply with the media ethics guidelines.

Articles published on July 16,2020 in Mawbima and Divaina violated media ethics guidelines for reporting on suicide

Several articles published in June 2020 used terms connoting "pollution" to refer to survivors of sexual assault

Articles published in May 2020 Lankadeepa, Aruna and Mawbima used the term "mas wedda" which carried negative connotations.

Several articles published in June 2020 violated media ethics guidelines for reporting on suicide

Mawbima article published on July 17,2020 noted the relationship between the victim and suspect in a case of child abuse in a manner that risked revealing the identity of the underage victim

An article published on August, 2020 of Mawbima paper, reports an incident where it carried a photo of the body of the deceased which is unethical to publish such a photo when it can cause grief to the family of the victim.

Several media outlets published May 2020 claimed that EC Member Hoole's daughter violated quarantine regulations. However, only some media outlets reached out to Hoole for a comment. Similarly, only some media outlets ...

Various articles published on July 20 and 21, 2020 violated media ethics guidelines in their coverage of suicide