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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 -
Basil Rajapaksa: 2021 Government Revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/11/2021)BLATANTLY FALSE: Especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rs. 1500-1600 billion has reduced from the revenue that we should have generated during this year alone. That is even higher than the amount we estimated to be the ... -
උපකාරක අංක පළ කිරීම ප්රශංසා කටයුතුයි!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11-24)In the month of November 2021 article published in The Morning on suicide contained emergency helplines, which is in compliance with media ethics guidelines. -
උපකාරක අංක සඳහන් කිරීම ප්රශංසා කටයුතුයි !
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11-04)In the month of November 2021, Ethics Eye published an infographic where data pertaining to publishing helplines with articles on suicide in September 2021 and October 2021 were demonstrated. The following media outlets ... -
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ භාවිතය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)During the month of October 2021 Lankadeepa, Divaina, Mawbima and Aruna published several articles which contained the ethical violations of using derogatory and backward terms such as "haamputha", "mathloliya" and "ganika", ... -
කාන්තාව වෙන් කොට සලකන සහ කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු කරන වාර්තාකරණයන්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)During the month of October, Mawbima, Divaina, Aruna and Dinamina published articles which discriminated women. When reporting law-breaking incidents where both men and women were involved and the women were not in the ... -
සමේ වර්ණය සහ ශරීරය මත පදනම් වූ කොන් කිරීම්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)During the month of October Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Sunday Divaina and Dinamina published several articles which contained the ethical violations of using the derogatory terms "sudda", "sudu katha" and "cheena" which discriminate ...