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The Wattegama Girl Is Alive: Debunking the Viral ‘She Has Died’ Posts
Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel The photographs were hard to look at: a four-year-old girl, her small face bruised and her left eye swollen shut, abandoned on a lonely road in Wattegama. Within hours the images were everywhere, now captioned as though she had died: “Oh, she’s gone… may you attain Nibbana, little one.” Sinhala […]
Political
No, Deshapriya Did Not Ask to Extend the Election Chief’s Retirement Age
Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel With the country already arguing over a plan to keep judges on the bench longer, a screenshot dressed up in Newswire’s familiar branding began doing the rounds: former Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya, it claimed, wanted the Elections Commissioner’s retirement age extended, and wanted his old job back. Deshapriya says he […]
Did Harsha de Silva Say Rs. 3,200 of a Rs. 3,700 Local Arrack Is Tax?
Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Several posts claimed that Parliamentarian Dr. Harsha de Silva had purportedly said that Rs. 3,200 of the Rs. 3,700 prices of an arrack bottle is pure tax. The number spread from a newspaper front page into TV bulletins and Facebook reels. We investigated. Here is what we found. Social Media […]
International
No Soldier, Just AI: Fake “Attack” Fuels the Misinfo Wave on Imran Khan’s 3rd Year in Jail
Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Imran Khan is a name Sri Lankan audiences know well, first as one of cricket’s greatest captains and later as Pakistan’s prime minister. So, when a short video began spreading across Sinhala social media feeds, appearing to show a uniformed soldier striking the now-jailed former leader, it triggered immediate shock […]
Rumour vs. Reality: No, Riyadh’s Sri Lankan Embassy Did NOT Ban Its Buddhist Sunday School
Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A claim that Sri Lankan diplomats had shut down a Buddhist Sunday school on foreign soil, and blocked Vesak celebrations, was always going to strike a nerve at home. That is exactly what spread across Sinhala social media: posts alleging that the Dhamma school run for a decade by Sri […]
No, PM Modi Did Not Tell India’s Students to ‘Learn from Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya’
Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Few words carry as much weight in Sinhala social media as “Aragalaya.” So, a post now spreading fast in Sri Lankan feeds grabs attention: it claims Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing India’s own wave of student protests, appealed to his country’s youth “like a father” not to copy Sri […]
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