Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A video claiming to be a “banned programme from 2009” has been circulating on Sri Lankan social media, featuring a woman introduced as a doctor alleging that the World Health Organization (WHO) has been secretly developing sterilizing vaccines since 1974, with the goal of reducing the global population by 90%. […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A recurring pattern on Sri Lankan social media involves genuine footage from other countries being stripped of all contexts and reposted as recent local incidents. The goal is simple: provoke outrage. A video showing two young men violently assaulting a third, his hands bound to a tree, has been circulating […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Amid Sri Lanka’s slow recovery from its worst economic crisis in decades, a post styled as a ‘Dinamina’ newspaper article began circulating on social media, claiming the World Bank had ranked the country the world’s second poorest. The claim was politically loaded: some versions blamed the current government, while others […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Politicians are among the most frequent targets of misinformation on social media. A video circulated widely on social media, implying that Minister Patali Champika had caused a road accident on Vesak Poya Day, 30th May 2026. Given the ongoing High Court proceedings related to a 2016 accident involving Patali Champika, […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel As public trust in Sri Lanka’s financial institutions had eroded under a growing wave of fraud allegations, a three-year-old news report about unrecorded tax revenue resurfaced on social media, and many assumed it was happening right now. A screenshot of a Mawbima newspaper article claiming that thirty-six crores out of […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Photographs of a passport stamp featuring an animal resembling a tiger, have been circulating on social media, with posts claiming it is a new stamp introduced by Sri Lanka’s Department of Immigration and Emigration, and that the animal depicted represents the LTTE terrorist organisation’s emblem. We investigated the claim. Social […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel The government officially declared 27 May to 2 June 2026 as Vesak Week. As with previous religious and public holidays, the Vesak season brought with it a wave of misleading posts on social media, ranging from inaccurate claims about liquor store closures to fabricated statements attributed to government ministers. Below […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When a video of a parliamentary speech honouring a former LTTE commander began circulating on social media, claims quickly spread that a member of the current ruling party had paid tribute to an LTTE member in Parliament. The video sparked intense debate. However, our investigation revealed that the claim was […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp channel When headlines claimed that FBI agents had touched down in Sri Lanka to investigate a $2.5 million cyberheist from the national treasury and a separate theft of $625,000 owed to the US Postal Service, the story spread quickly across social media and mainstream media alike. We contacted the US Embassy […]
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When a social media post claims that a common household oil can destroy cancer cells overnight, it travels fast. The idea is simple, the ingredient familiar, and the language sounds scientific enough to seem credible. A viral claim spreading across Facebook and Instagram asserts that peppermint essential oil can “destroy” or “eliminate” human throat cancer […]
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