Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Sri Lanka’s debt is personal for every taxpayer who lived through the 2022 default, so a post now spreading on social media lands hard: “Thieves plundered for 74 years and ran up Rs. 22 trillion in debt; Anura came and pushed it to Rs. 34 trillion in 17 Poya days” […]
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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 Few animals are as well known to Sri Lankans as Randeniye Bandara, the majestic tusker also called the Warakagoda elephant, a regular sight at temple peraheras. So, when he was struck by a tipper truck on the Kurunegala–Dambulla road on July 28, 2026, the whole country followed the news anxiously. […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Sri Lankans love their Tamil cinema heroes, and few command a following here quite like Thalapathy Vijay, now the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. So, when posts began landing in Sinhala feeds claiming that Vijay had ordered rapists to be hanged within 24 hours, many shared them with pride, as […]
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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. Every so often, a post races across social media claiming that a well-known content creator has suddenly died, often in a road accident, and dressed up with a real crash photo to look convincing. The latest targets a woman known online as Dileka Weenavi. We […]
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To get daily verified facts, join our WhatsApp channel here. With the Esala and Dalada Perahera season under way, a claim spread fast across social media: that Deputy Minister of Urban Development Eranga Gunasekara had said the Dalada Perahera’s street procession should be stopped and confined to the Temple of the Tooth alone. Carried on […]
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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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To get daily verified facts, join our WhatsApp channel here. A photo collection and videos spread fast across Facebook and other social media claiming that an English teacher at one of the island’s leading girls’ schools had taken part in an international fashion and modelling pageant held in Malaysia, representing Sri Lanka. The posts claimed […]
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