Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Every few years, El Niño returns, and every time it does, social media fills with fear. This June, NOAA officially declared a new El Niño event, and within days, Sri Lankan social media was flooded with warnings of imminent drought, catastrophic destruction from a “Super El Niño,” and claims that […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When grief is weaponized for political scoring, fact-checkers have a responsibility to name it clearly. Following the sudden death of Nivin Kumarapperuma, son of President’s Counsel and NPP Matara District parliamentary candidate Upul Kumarapperuma, a wave of condolences came from across the political spectrum. Among those who paid their final […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel In May 2026, social media posts celebrating the NPP government’s economic management spread widely, claiming that Sri Lanka had made a historic payment of USD 8.09 billion to the global financial market in the first three months of the year. The figure is real. What it represents, however, is not […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Scroll through Tamil social media on any given day and you will find someone selling a miracle cure for hair loss. The pitch is always the same: 16 or 48 or 65 Ayurvedic herbs, a mysterious animal ingredient, guaranteed results in weeks, all-island delivery. The latest product making this circuit […]
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A viral image circulating across social media platforms appears to show U.S. President Donald Trump standing outdoors with three unusually tall, pale-haired figures dressed in ornate red uniforms. Posts accompanying the image claim that Trump originally posted the photograph himself and later deleted it, prompting speculation that the image captured a secret meeting involving “mystery […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel The arrest of former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director Suresh Sallay in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings has been one of the most closely watched criminal matters in Sri Lanka. Against that backdrop, a photo began circulating on social media on 12 June 2026, claiming to show eight […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A 24-year-old Tamil rapper from Kilinochchi performed at a Hindu temple festival in northern Sri Lanka on a May evening. Days later he was in Jaffna Prison, facing allegations that a song he wrote was an attempt to revive a designated terrorist organization. The arrest of Sangeethsan Ganeskumar, known to […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Two separate social media posts made serious criminal allegations about former Army Commander General Shavendra Silva and Retired Major General Jagath Dias. The first claimed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had launched an investigation against Shavendra Silva over the alleged massacre of civilians in the Wellamullivaikkal area. The second claimed […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Some hoaxes refuse to die. A voice message claiming that ISIS operatives are posing as NGO workers across Sri Lanka, visiting homes under the guise of collecting blood samples and injecting people with the HIV virus has been circulating on WhatsApp and social media since at least 2014. It spread […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A deeply disturbing report has been circulating on social media claiming that a brother hacked his younger sibling to death in the Dikwella area of Matara district, Sri Lanka. The post attracted wide sharing and significant alarm among especially among Tamil online communities. Fact Crescendo investigated to determine whether any […]
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