Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Few names carry as much weight among Sri Lanka’s Advanced Level students as Dinesh Muthugala, the Biology tuition teacher who commands a following of hundreds of thousands. So, a social media post claiming that “Muthugala Sir” had insulted the judiciary over its ruling refusing to postpone the A/L examination was […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Every so often, a single photograph resurfaces in Sinhala feeds with an explosive caption: at a rally beside President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stands a man in a T-shirt “symbolising Eelam,” supposedly proof that separatists back the President. The image has been recycled for years, each time under a new theme. […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel As Sri Lanka moves to block dozens of illegal betting websites, a screenshot began doing the rounds on Facebook and other platforms claiming the government had swept up Binance and Bybit, the crypto exchanges thousands of Sri Lankans use, in the same ban. For anyone who trades or holds crypto […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Barely had the smoke cleared from the 13-hour riot at Mahara Prison when a wave of forged documents and invented quotes began circulating on Sri Lankan social media, each trying to score a political point. A letter “signed” by the Opposition Leader, a resignation quote “reported” by ITN, and a […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When a senior state lawyer who has been pressing military intelligence officers over the Easter Sunday attacks is suddenly said to have lost his licence over a bribe, the story is bound to travel fast. That is exactly what happened to Additional Solicitor General and President’s Counsel Dileepa Peiris, with […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Nothing stirs Sri Lankan feeds faster than a claim about how public money is spent at the top. Last week, some mainstream outlets and social media posts said an official audit showed 3,089 “outsiders” had stayed at presidential residences in 2025, with tens of millions of rupees spent on them, […]
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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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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When Yupun Abeykoon, one of the finest sprinters Sri Lanka has ever produced, announced that he was walking away from the track, the news struck a national nerve. Within hours, a wave of screenshots spread across Facebook, each quoting a government minister appearing to mock the athlete, dismiss his worth, […]
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To get daily verified facts, join our WhatsApp channel here. When Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya recently left for Qatar to convey the Sri Lankan government’s condolences on the death of Qatar’s former ruler, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, a young woman seen beside her at Katunayake Airport set social media alight. In a politically […]
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Soon after the recent arrest of the owner of House of Fashions, a popular clothing store in Sri Lanka, a post spread quickly across social media claiming that Deputy Minister Arkam Ilyas had said, the House of Fashions owner was a huge threat to the Muslim textile-businessmen. The claim, tied to a Muslim politician and […]
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