Verite Research Institutional Knowledge Repository: Recent submissions
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Ranil Wickremesinghe: Election costs
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/30/2022)BLATANTLY FALSE: You cannot go for elections now. The economy is getting really bad. We have to stabilise the economy. The cost of the last election was Rs.10 billion. It will cost Rs.20 billion this time. A candidate will ... -
Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe: Constitutional amendments
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/23/2022)FALSE: The executive presidential system can only be abolished by enacting a new constitution. This is because the president’s powers extend throughout the constitution. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, Sunday Lankadeepa, 28 May 2022 -
Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe: IMF
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/16/2022)TRUE: An Extended Fund Facility (EFF) - which allows longer repayment periods - may be best suited to the country, it typically requires deeper structural reforms. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Daily News, 19 April 2022. -
Ali Sabry: Tax revenue
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/9/2022)PARTLY TRUE: It [tax revenue as a percentage of GDP] decreased over time, under all these governments [every government since 1981] and today it has collapsed to a value of 8.7%. Mohamed Ali Sabry, Asian Mirror YouTube ... -
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: International Sovereign Bonds
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/26/2022)PARTLY TRUE: Every month we have to repay the loans that previous governments had obtained for various reasons. On ISBs, by 2015, we had only taken out USD 5 billion worth of them. During the time of the previous government, ... -
Kanchana Wijesekara: Fuel prices
(www.factcheck.lk , 5/24/2022)TRUE: Fuel Price will be revised from 3am today. Fuel pricing formula that was approved by the cabinet was applied to revise the prices. Price revision includes all costs incurred in importing, unloading, distribution to ... -
Is Blocking Websites Making Sri Lankan Telecom Share Prices Vulnerable?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-07)If Sri Lankan Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are blocking news websites without due diligence, then their present and future share values are vulnerable. This Insight explains what ISPs should do to ensure minimum due ... -
මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම කඩවීම් වළක්වා ගැනීමට නම්...
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10-11)In the month of October 2021, articles published in Lankadeepa and Lankadeepa Online contained several media ethical violations. On October 1, Lankadeepa published a photo of a mass gathering, claiming that it was the crowd ... -
විවාහක යුවළක් ද? "අනියම් යුවලක්"ද? ඔබ තෝරාගන්නා පුවත් වාර්තාව කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10-05)In the month of October 2021, Mawbima, Sunday Divaina and Sunday Lankadeepa ran mismatching news articles on a murder. Sunday Divaina and Sunday Lankadeepa reported that a dispute between a married couple had ended in the ... -
භාවාතිශය වාර්තාකරණ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12)During the months of December 2021 and November 2021, Mawbima, Lankadeepa Online and Aruna published several articles which contained the following ethical violations: publishing sensational cartoons, gender stereotyping ... -
බාලවයස්කරුවන්ගේ අනන්‍යතාවය හෙළිකිරීම් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම කඩවීම්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12)During the month of December 2021, Lankadeepa (06-12-2021), Aruna (06-12-2021), Divaina (06/07-12-2021), and Daily Mirror (06-12-2021) published several articles which violated the media ethics guidelines on protecting the ... -
උපකාරක අංක පළ කිරීම ප්‍රශංසා කටයුතුයි!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-02)In the month of November 2021, articles published in The Morning published helplines with articles relating to domestic abuse and drug abuse, which is commendable reporting that adheres to media ethical guidelines, as it ... -
ලිංගික අපරාධ සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01)During the months of December 2021 and January 2022, Mawbima, Divaina (12-01-2022), Lankadeepa (04/20-01-2022), Lankadeepa Online, Aruna, Sunday Aruna, Sunday Divaina and Silumina published several articles on sexual crimes, ... -
වින්දිතයාට දෝෂාරෝපණය කිරීමක්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-09-29)In the month of September 2021, an article published in Divaina violated media ethical guidelines by sensationalising and trivialising a sexual assault and blaming the victim. -
නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-09)During the month of September 2021, articles published in Dinamina, Aruna, Divaina and Mawbima referred to suspects of crimes and foreign individuals in derogatory language, which is a violation of media ethical guidelines. -
සිදුවූ බවට පැවසෙන වංචා දූෂණ වලට අදාළ ලිපිගොනු, ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ විසින් හෙළිදරව් කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-04)In the month of May 2022, JVP held a press conference revealing corrupt deals, fraud and mismanagement of the government. Though a news of national significance, only Lankadeepa, Divaina and Ada gave it the due prominence ... -
TAs with India and China: Potential for Sri Lanka
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-04)Sri Lanka has various levels of trade agreements (TAs) with both India and China. A new TA with China was mooted in 2014 and the appetite for that continues in the new presidency and policy context of 2015. While statistics ... -
අන්තර්කාලීන ආණ්ඩුව සහ අගමැතිකම: සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාසගේ ස්ථාවරය මාධ්‍ය ඇසින්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-13)In the months of May 2022 and April 2022, Lankadeepa and Divaina carried headlines on the fluctuating stance of SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa on the interim government, which ranges from completely opposing to joining an ... -
Proposal to suspend standing orders defeated or the motion against the president deafeated?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-19)On the proposal to suspend Parliament Standing Orders and debate motion against President, The Morning, Ceylon Today, Daily Mirror, and The Island correctly identified in their front page headlines that it was the proposal ... -
දේශපාලන අර්බුදය, මහජන අරගලය සහ විරෝධතා
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05)During the month of May 2022, several newspapers and tv primetime news telecasts reported on the ongoing protests against the government around the country and especially at GotaGoGama, the attack on GotaGoGama by SLPP ...