Peoples’ protests which started at the Galle Face premises, demanding the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and government to step down, has now extended for over a month. The peaceful protestors were attacked on May 09th by SLPP supporters, and it resulted in a wave of violence which spread across the island nation. The Police along with […]
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Social media users shared an article from a satirical website believing it to be True. An image targeting pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s Vice President Rady Johnson is going viral on social media. Users claimed that Rady Johnson was arrested after Pfizer released a new set of documents about the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Users claim that he was […]
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This is our investigation into the truth of a photo, which went viral on social media streams in Sri Lanka, claiming to be scenes of former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family members fleeing from a Sri Lankan Air Force helicopter Social Media Claims A photo was widely circulated on social media alleging to […]
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Due to the current political and economic crisis of the country, people have been protesting against the Rajapaksa family, with the main protest ground at Galle Face extending to over a month now. Due to the pressure of people`s protests, and subsequent events which took place on May 9th, Mahinda Rajapaksa submitted his resignation from […]
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Sri Lanka is currently undergoing a severe political and economic crisis. With the resignation of PM Mahinda Rajapaksa and cabinet of ministers, political instability has worsened, and there are discussions on formation of a caretaker government/interim government. In this regard many are giving their own views and interpretations on formation of an interim government. We notice […]
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With the prevailing unrest in Sri Lanka, a curfew has been imposed in the country since 9th of May. Number of unconfirmed claims about the ongoing situation in the country have also been rapidly spreading through social media. Social media posts claiming that there would be an island wide major power outage which could continue for a few […]
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Update 18/05/22: Lanka IOC Managing Director Manoj Gupta confirmed that the social media posts claiming that Lanka IOC would increase fuel prices from midnight today (May 18) are untrue. This was confirmed by Sri Lanka’s Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera as well. A news item circulated on social media saying that Lanka Indian […]
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Claims related to discovery of species which are said to have been extinct often garner a lot of interest among many nature lovers. However, there are many misleading social media posts also, related to such rare findings. This is our investigation on such a claim related to a giant sea scorpion, said to have been […]
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As the economic and political crisis extends in Sri Lanka, anti-government protests have continued to grow in many sectors, apart from the main protest ground at the Galle-face grounds. We noticed an image viral among social media users over the last few days claiming to be a recent image of a Sri Lanka police officer, […]
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As Sri Lanka continues to grapple with the ever-increasing inflation rates, the prices of goods and services have been constantly on the rise over the past few weeks. Posts of price increases of day-to-day items is a common sight on social media these days. In this backdrop claims of alleged price increase of safety wax […]
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