Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel The reported abduction and gang-rape of a 13-year-old girl in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, horrified India and spread quickly across Sri Lankan social media. In the outrage that followed, a stream of videos began circulating, some presented as footage of the crime itself, others as scenes of the men responsible being […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya handed over the new Faculty of Medicine complex at Sabaragamuwa University on July 4, 2026, the news set off a political tug-of-war online. One set of posts claimed the very same faculty had already been opened by Ranil Wickremesinghe back in 2019, and some […]
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A conspiracy theory circulating widely on social media claims that NASA secretly prepared for a global “gravity blackout” scheduled for August 12, 2026. According to the viral posts, a leaked classified document called “Project Anchor” allegedly predicts that Earth will temporarily lose gravity for seven seconds, causing people, vehicles, and buildings to float before crashing […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel The violent clash between two groups of inmates at Negombo Prison on July 5 and 6, 2026, a crisis that left 26 people dead with dozens hospitalised, set off a wave of public anger. Bad actors moved to exploit that volatile moment for political and personal ends, floating doctored cards […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Footage of traffic lights, shopping trolleys, and car parts appearing to melt has been spreading across social media recently, shared with captions claiming Europe’s heatwave has become so extreme that everyday objects are physically liquefying in the heat. The clips have reached Sri Lankan social media feeds as well, alongside […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A social media post has been circulating claiming that, following the removal of Aswesuma benefits from a group of beneficiaries since June, Minister of Transport Bimal Rathnayake stated that the Aswesuma benefit would have to be granted again when an election approaches. We carried out a fact check regarding this […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel With dengue cases past 50,000 and several districts nearing epidemic levels, Sri Lanka spent early July 2026 on edge over the outbreak. Into that anxious moment dropped a card carrying the News 1st logo and dated July 5, which quoted Health Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa as saying the government bears […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Sri Lanka crashed out of the upper-middle-income bracket during the worst economic collapse in its history, and in the World Bank’s latest classification, it has climbed back in, this time by a margin of just thirty-four dollars. Yet with prices still elevated, wages below pre-crisis levels and the middle class […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Negombo Prison erupted into the deadliest bout of prison violence Sri Lanka has seen in years in early July 2026, with 20 inmates and 7 officials killed inside 24 hours and relatives massing outside the gates for news. In the middle of that chaos, a post-style to look like an […]
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Images and videos claiming to show the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have circulated widely across multiple platforms in recent days. The posts appeared as Iran began official mourning ceremonies and state funeral processions in early July 2026 following Khamenei’s death earlier this year. However, our investigation found that both the […]
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