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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 ... -
සැකකරුවන්ගේ අනන්යතාවය හෙළිකිරීම අවශ්යද? ඔබේ අදහස?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)In the month of November 2021, an article published in Mawbima mentioned the names of suspects arrested during a drug raid, whereas an article on the same on The Morning ethically reported the incident by not mentioning ... -
භාවාතිශය වාර්තාකරණයන්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)During the month of November 2021, Aruna, Lankadeepa, Divaina, and Sunday Aruna published several articles which contained the following ethical violations: sensationalising news on sexual crimes, trivialising sexual crimes, ... -
නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)During the month of November 2021, Aruna, Mawbima, Lankadeepa and Divaina published several articles which contained the ethical violation of using the term "කුඩ්ඩා" (Kudda). Kudda is a derogatory term that negatively ... -
ලිංගික අපරාධ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම කඩවීම්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)During the month of November 2021, Mawbima, Divaina, Aruna, and Lankadeepa published several articles which contained the following ethical violations: using the derogatory terms "දුෂණය" (Dooshanaya) and "කෙළෙසීම" (Keleseema) ... -
පුද්ගල ගරුත්වය සහ කොවිඩ්-19
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)During the month of November 2021, Derana and Swarnavahini published news on individuals violating COVID-19 regulations including not wearing masks, which contained the ethical violation of exposing their identity without ... -
W.D.J. Seneviratne: Foreign and central government debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/16/2021)FALSE: At the time when Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa handed over the government, we had only 72% of foreign loans. However, soon after the Yahapalana government, when we came into power that percentage has been increased up to ... -
Basil Rajapaksa: Poultry and eggs
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/9/2021)TRUE:Sri Lanka…[is] already [close to being] self-sufficient in eggs and poultry. - Basil Rajapaksa, Budget Speech, 12 Novemeber 2021 -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rajapaksa budget
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/2/2021)FALSE: There are 4 Rajapaksas who represent the cabinet. There is also a state minister as well. How much of funds have been allocated to that family—to the ministries they represent? The total expenditure is 5,200 billion ... -
Udaya Gammanpila: Fuel Imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/4/2021)TRUE: Out of the total import expenditure, fuel is the foremost import item upon which more than 20% is spent. - Udaya Gammanpila, Dinamina, 1 October 2021 -
Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Credit cards and tax files
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/25/2021)BLATANTLY FALSE: There are nearly 1,000 tax files in our country. There are over 10 million credit cards in our country. Each credit card holder does transactions of nearly Rs. 1 million to 1.5 million. - Mahindananda ... -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Yugadhanawi Kerawalapitiya Power Plant
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/28/2021)TRUE:…Basil Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, presented a cabinet paper and handed over these constructions [to convert the Yugadhanawi Power Plant into an LNG plant] to a US company [New Fortress Energy] ... -
Shantha Bandara: Finance Act 2021
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/21/2021)TRUE:…noteworthy is the fact that [the Finance Act No. 18 of 2021] will not invalidate the Prevention of Money Laundering Act or any other finance law in the country. - Shantha Bandara, Divaina, 10 September 2021 -
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: COVID-19 Expenditure
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/14/2021)FALSE:The Government has spent more than Rs. 700 billion on controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and providing relief to people and that it is exactly half of the overall income of this country last year which was Rs. 1,380 ... -
Mahinda Amaraweera: Public Sector Spending
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2021)FALSE: More than 85% of government revenue goes to pay salaries and pensions to public servants. - Mahinda Amaraweera, Media briefing Department of Government Information, 1 September 2021 -
Ashok Abeysinghe: Organic agriculture statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2021)TRUE: There are only 16 countries in the world that have at least moved towards 10% organic agriculture. No Asian countries are among those 16. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Official Facebook page of Samagi Jana Balawegaya, 26 October 2021