Research Outputs: Recent submissions
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Patali Champika Ranawaka: Sugar and Fats Imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/1/2021)TRUE: Compared to 2019, sugar imports have increased by 38% and oil and fat imports have increased by 237%. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Parliament Hansard, 11 February 2021 -
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: ISB debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/26/2021)PARTLY TRUE: As of now (February 2021), the total ISBs outstanding is USD 14 billion, which is only 16.7 percent of Sri Lanka’s total debt. None of the other creditors who hold 83.3 percent of Sri Lanka’s debt seem to show ... -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Export Agriculture Crops
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/19/2021)TRUE: The revenue from export agricultural crops stood at Rs. 63,000 million in 2019. Within one year we have been able to increase it to Rs. 73,000 million. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Dinamina, 3 March 2021 -
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