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ලිංගික අතවරයට පත් අයෙකුගේ අනන්යතාවය හෙළි නොකළ යුතුය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-21)A Mawbima article published on July 17, 2020 named the victim of sexual abuse and used inappropriate terms ("දූෂණය ") to refer to the incident. -
කාන්තා ඡායාරූප පෙන්වා වට්ස්ඇප් ඔස්සේ ගණිකා සේවයක් පවත්වාගෙන ගිය දෙදෙනෙක් කොටු වෙති - මෙම සිරස්තලය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔබේ අදහස කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-21)An article published by Mawbima on July 20, 2020 carried the following headline: Two people who were conducting a prostitution service over WhatsApp by sharing images of women, get caught -
General Election 2020: TV News Coverage of Political Parties - 13-17 July 2020
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-21)Prime time TV news coverage afforded to the main political parties contesting the 2020 General Elections by selected TV Sinhala language TV channels in the period 13-17 July, 2020 -
දිවි අහිමි කර ගැනීම් වාර්තා කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-22)On July 20,2020 several newspapers violated media ethics guidelines in their coverage on suicide -
දිවි අහිමි කර ගැනීම් වාර්තා කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-22)Various articles published on July 20 and 21, 2020 violated media ethics guidelines in their coverage of suicide -
මරණ තර්ජන එල්ලවී ඇත්තේ: ජනපතිටද? බන්ධනාගාර කොමසාරිස්ටද? නිලධාරීන්ටද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-23)Several articles published on July 21 and 22, 2020 carried conflicting reports on whom the target of death threats had been: the president, or prison commissioner/ officials? -
තහවුරු කළ - නොකළ පුවත්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-23)On July 23, 2020 various papers reported on the 'murder' of 'Angoda Lokka' in India. Some reported the news as though it was confirmed, other as though it was unconfirmed. Police stated they were awaiting official confirmation. -
කාන්තාවකගේ බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-24)A Mawbima article published on July 24, 2020 mentioned that a woman's physical appearance in an instance where it was irrelevant to the story being covered. -
සැකකරුවන්ද? ඝාතකයින්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-24)Articles in Divaina and Aruna published on July 24, 2020 refer to "murderers" in the headline and "suspects" in the body of the article. Investigations were still ongoing. -
දූෂණය - කෙළෙසීම - වැනසීම වැනි වදන් වෙනුවට "ලිංගික අපරාධය" හෝ බාල වයස්කරුවෙක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් නම් "ලිංගික අපයෝජනය" වැනි යෙදුම් වඩාත් යෝග්ය වේ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-27)Various articles published in June in Mawbima and Aruna use the term "keleseema" (pollution) in coverage on sexual abuse/a sex crime. One article names the underage victim. -
Budget Allocation: Education
(Manthri.lk, 2017-11-23)This infographic depicts the percentage allocated for the Education in the Budget 2018 and the extent to which this topic have been discussed in Parliament. -
Budget Allocation: Disaster Management
(Manthri.lk, 2017-11-28)This infographic depicts the percentage allocated for the disaster management in the Budget 2018 and the extent to which this topic have been discussed in Parliament. -
Budget Allocation: Agriculture
(Manthri.lk, 2017-11-22)This infograpic depicts the percentage allocated for the agriculture in the budget 2018 and the extent to which this topic have been discussed in Parliament. -
Information Disorder and Mainstream Media in Sri Lanka
(2020)A great deal of research on information disorder focuses on social media as the source, producer and distributor of false content. Within this research, mainstream media is often positioned as an inadvertent distributor ... -
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Loans from Japan
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/8/2020)TRUE: As a country, Japan has given the most in loans at low interest rates. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Aruna, 16 June 2020 -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Electricity access
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/16/2020)TRUE: We provided electricity to 99.9% of the country. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 24 June 2020 -
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: GDP growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/2/2020)PARTLY TRUE: Prior to 2015, the economic growth rate was between 7% and 8%, but by 2019, it fell below 2%. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Divaina, 16 June 2020 -
Lakshman Kiriella: Bond scandal assets freeze
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/11/2020)PARTLY TRUE: The allegation is that the UNP caused a loss of LKR 10 billion through bonds. The country has not experienced a loss because the CBSL froze/impounded LKR 12 billion from Perpetual Treasuries. However, the ... -
Presidential Election 2019: Know your Candidates
(Manthri.lk, 2019-10-31)This infographic shows independent presidential candidates and the candidates nominated by a political party -
Presidential Election 2019: Age of Candidates
(Manthri.lk, 2019-11-11)This infographic shows the age of presidential candidates in the 2019 presidential election.
