Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A number can travel a long way once it leaves its original context. This week, posts began circulating claiming the IMF had confirmed that USD 808 million simply went missing from Sri Lanka in 2025, under the NPP government. The figure itself is real and appears in an official IMF […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A claim built around real courtroom testimony, a real corruption case, and a real public health controversy is the hardest kind to fact-check, because it sounds far too specific to be made up. That is exactly what happened when social media posts began alleging that a top Sri Lankan medical […]
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Social media posts circulating on platforms claim that researchers in the United Kingdom have developed a bio-inspired robotic fish capable of swimming through the ocean and “eating” microplastics that are difficult to remove using conventional cleanup methods. However, available evidence shows that it is an experimental prototype rather than a proven ocean-cleanup solution, and it […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Rental housing has become one of Sri Lanka’s quiet crises, with more families squeezed into rented rooms and houses every year, often with little legal protection. So, when a certificate began circulating on social media warning that fake agents were collecting money and fraudulent documents from desperate tenant families, under […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A list of traffic fine amounts has been circulating on social media, and the figures are striking enough to grab attention. Some entries show fines several times higher than what most drivers expect to pay for common violations. We checked whether Sri Lanka’s traffic fine structure has actually been revised. […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Recycling old video clips as recent events is one of the most common forms of misleading content on Sri Lankan social media. A short clip of a CEB official telling Sri Lankans that children do not need electricity to study and could use a kerosene lamp instead has been circulating […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A photo post circulated on social media presenting a ceremony at the Beruwala Fisheries Harbour as the current NPP government launching Sri Lanka’s first ever locally manufactured multi-day fishing vessel. The claim resonated quickly in a political environment where supporters and critics are closely tracking government achievements. We investigated what […]
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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 On June 9, 2026, the Colombo High Court delivered its verdict in four cases filed by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption against former Minister Sarana Gunawardena. Within hours, social media circles read two quite different stories. Some mainstream outlets and social media users reported that the […]
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As the third phase of excavations at the Chemmani mass grave site in Sri Lanka’s north continues to yield harrowing finds, a wave of viral photographs has been circulating on social media claiming to document the discoveries firsthand. Some of those images, however, have nothing to do with Chemmani at all. Fact Crescendo investigated. Social […]
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