In the month of May 2021 Derana and Hiru TV Prime Time News broadcast Covid-19 health regulation violators in a manner that revealed their identity, which violates privacy and media ethics.

In the month of May 2021 articles published in Aruna, Dinamina, Mawbima and Lankadeepa used disability-first language such as 'ආබාධිත' instead of person-first language such as 'ආබාධ සහිත', which marginalizes such communities.

In the month of May 2021 articles published in various Sinhala newspapers used derogatory terms such as කෙලෙසූ, පිස්සු වැටුණු, මෙහෙකාරිය, කොරෝනා මව, and කාක්කිය.

In the month of April 2021, articles published in Divaina and Aruna used derogatory terms such as "kudda" and "mathloliya", which is considered disrespectful and is against media ethics guidelines.

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, ...

On the 5th of April 2021 Divaina, Dinamina and Aruna reported a suicide news without any helplines.

On the 31st of March 2021 Divaina published an article that contained inaccurate reporting related to Covid-19

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.

On the 1st of April 2021 Aruna published an article with COVID- 19 discrimination. Ex- patient blaming, patient labelling and isolation

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.