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Asela Gunawardana: Community Transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/12/2021)FALSE: “If it is to reach the community transmission level, the positive rate would have drastically spiraled parallel to the number of PCR tests. At present, Sri Lanka is not experiencing such a situation”. - Asela ... -
Keheliya Rambukwella: GDP growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/15/2020)TRUE: When President Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country in 2005, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was USD 20 billion. In ten years, we increased the GDP to USD 80 billion. - Keheliya Rambukwella, Dinamina, 4 December 2019 -
Sajith Premadasa: Fuel price reduction
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/6/2020)PARTLY TRUE: The price of a litre of 95 octane petrol is Rs. 161 and this can be priced at Rs. 94. A litre of super diesel is sold at Rs. 132 and this price can be reduced to Rs. 77. A litre of diesel is sold at Rs. 104 ... -
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Misinformation on disability data
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2020)FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President’s Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020 -
තවත් අයෙක් පහත් කොට දක්වන පුවත්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-03)During the month of March 2021, several newspapers [Aruna, Mawbima, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Ada,] published several articles which contained the following unethical terms -රූමත්, කුඩ්ඩා, මත්ලෝලියා, දූෂණය,කෙළෙසීම, Corona අම්මලා, ... -
චීන එන්නත චීනුන්ට දෙමින්: චීන්නු - නිෂේධනාත්මක හැඳින්වීමක් නොවේද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-04)On the 5th of April 2021 Lankadeepa published an article that contained xenophobic reporting. Ex- Cheennu -
ණය බර ඉවසන්න බැරි වූ දෙදරු මව සියදිවි නසා ගනී: උපකාරක අංක සඳහන් කරමු ජීවිතයක් බේරා ගනිමු
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-04-07)On the 5th of April 2021 Divaina, Dinamina and Aruna reported a suicide news without any helplines. -
ලිංගික අපරාධයක් සැහැල්ලුකොට දක්වන භාවාතිශය සිරස්තල
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-04)During the month of April 2021, from 1st of April 2021 to 9th of April 2021 Divaina, Mawbima, Dinamina published several articles which contained sensationalised reporting that reduce the gravity of the news. -
කොරෝනා ආවේ සතුන් හරහා: කොවිඩ්-19 සහ නිරවද්ය නොවන සිරස්තල
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-04-06)On the 31st of March 2021 Divaina published an article that contained inaccurate reporting related to Covid-19 -
විහාරාධිපති හිමිගෙන් ලක්ෂ 25ක කප්පමක් ඉල්ලූ හිතවතා අත්අඩංගුවට: පුවතට අදාළ නොවන වාර්ගිකත්වයන්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-04-08)On the 8th of April, Mawbima two articles published in Mawbima reported the ethnicity of individuals when it is not relevant to the news. -
ආබාධිතද? ආබාධ සහිත පුද්ගලයාද? - එසේම ආබාධ-මූලික භාෂාවක් වෙනුවට පුද්ගල-මුලික භාෂාවකට හුරුවෙමු
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-04)During the month of April 2021, from 1st April 2021 to 9th April 2021 Aruna and Mawbima published 2 articles that has used a disability-first language. -
54 persons including 13 girls arrested for partying illegally: ඇතැම් පුවතක කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු වනුයේ මන්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-01)During the month of January 2021, Divaina and Daily Mirror published 2 articles which contained women discriminatory reporting. Ex- highlighting women where it is not necessary and demeaning them. -
කොවිඩ් ගුරුවරයා නිසා කොළඹ ආනන්දේ 7, 8 ශ්රේණි නිවාඩු: කොවිඩ් සහ කොන් කිරීම්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-04-02)On the 1st of April 2021 Aruna published an article with COVID- 19 discrimination. Ex- patient blaming, patient labelling and isolation -
කොඩිකන්ද ආරණ්ය සේනාසනයේ විහාරාධිපති හිමිනමගේ ඝාතනයේ සුලමුල: ඡායාරූප සහ අනන්යතාවය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-01-11)On 6th of January 2021 article published in Mawbima published a picture of a victim of a murder which is an invasion of one's privacy. -
විශ්වසනීය මුලාශ්ර සඳහන් නොකරන්නේ මන්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-01)During the month of January 2021 Divaina and Mawbima published 2 articles that contained news without any sources to confirm the credibility of the news. -
මේ වාර්තාකරණයට වාර්ගිකත්වය වැදගත්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-01)During the month of January 2021 Aruna, Divaina and Mawbima published several articles which contained Ethnicity when it is not relevant to the news. Ex- Muslim -
දුෂණය, කුඩු ලෝලීන්, මත්ලෝලියා, කුඩ්ඩෙක්, කෙලෙසූ, මතට ලොල් වූ වැනි නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ භාවිතය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-01)During the month of January 2021 Lankadeepa, Aruna, Mawbima, Divaina published several articles that contained unethical derogatory terms such as දුෂණය, කුඩු ලෝලීන්, මත්ලොලියා, කුඩ්ඩෙක්, කෙලෙසූ, මතට ලොල් වූ -
කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයන් සහ කොරෝනා මරණ වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-01)During the month of January 2021 Mawbima and Aruna published articles that contain following unethical reporting with regard to COVID-19 patients, victims Ex- photographs of coffins, isolation of patients, patient blaming -
ඝාතනයක් හා දිවි අහිමි කරගැනීමේ සිදුවීමක් ආචාර ධාර්මික නොවන ලෙසින් මාධ්ය ඔස්සේ දැක්වුණු ආකාරය මෙසේයි
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-02)During the month of February Divaina, Dinamina, Mawbima, Aruna, Lankadeepa published several articles which contained the following ethical violations e.g., no helpline mentioned, method of suicide reported, reporting ... -
වන්දිය ඉහළ දමනවාට හාම්පුතුන්ගේ විරෝධය: හාම්පුතුන්ද? නැතිනම් සේවායෝජකයන්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-02)During the month of January Aruna published 2 articles that contain a word that does not comply with the modern societal values with regard to the estate owners and estate workers. Ex- Hamputhun
