Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When a grainy clip appeared to show Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara going Facebook Live from behind the wheel, Sri Lankan social media lit up. Users shared it as proof that a sitting cabinet minister was livestreaming while driving on a main road on 13 August 2026, and the comments piled […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Every Sri Lankan is taught to take pride in the island’s ancient hydraulic civilisation, so it is easy to see why the claim that the Alahera Anicut had joined the ranks of Sri Lanka’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites spread so quickly across social media, newspapers and news websites. The Alahera […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel On 6 August 2026, MP Ramanathan Archchunan held up his salary slip in Parliament and said MPs’ monthly pay and allowances had risen by Rs. 60,000. In a country where public anger over politicians’ perks runs hot, the clip did exactly what you would expect: it lit up social media, […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel With vehicle imports back in the news and every rupee of state spending under scrutiny, a claim that the government was quietly buying new bulletproof luxury cars for the President and Prime Minister, using public tax money, was always going to travel. It spread across Facebook and other platforms. We […]
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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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