The CWC 2023 final was played between India and Australia in Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on 19 November. Australia won the World Cup trophy for a record sixth time by defeating India. A video of the post-match ceremony is going viral on social media. In this video, Australia’s captain, Pat Cummins, can be seen […]
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US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, is an active figure and has regularly expressed views of the US government on crucial social and political matters related to Sri Lanka. As a result, she has often become a victim of false propaganda as well. We recently came across social media posts stating that Ms. Julie […]
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Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe is attending the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York. A few days ago, he addressed the General Assembly and highlighted some critical topics related to Sri Lanka and internationally, such as global climate change. Soon after the president’s speech, a photo post of purportedly President Wickremasinghe addressing the […]
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Holding one of the viral ministries, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry has been actively involved in a number of multilateral and bilateral discussions with several world leaders and foreign diplomats over the past few months. However, a recent viral Tweet had questioned the amount of money the minister had spent during his recent foreign […]
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දිනපතා සත්ය කරුණු දැන ගැනීමට අපගේ WhatsApp සමුහයටමෙතනින් එකතුවන්න. Viral posts on cyberspace stated that Minister Kanchana Wijesekera would marry the daughter of the McLaren Group’s owner, and because of this arrangement, the McLarens Group had been chosen as the local representative of Chinese oil company Sinopec, one of the three companies which were selected […]
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In the last few days, various rumors have been spread in the political arena about a possible alliance of some SJB MPs with President Ranil Wickremesinghe. But so far, none of the SJB MPs have officially announced joining with the President, and the general public is keeping an eye on the political decisions of SJB […]
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Posts are widely circulated on social media stating that a public meeting would be held against the current coalition government under the leadership of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Social Media Posts Viral posts tried to convince the public that former president Mahinda Rajapaksa would hold a public meeting against the current government. Accordingly, the purported […]
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The former president of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, continuing on the pre-election mandate, implemented several steps to move towards organic fertilizer. However, this move was not properly phased out and heavily backfired and was one of the reasons for the start of the protests against the Rajapaksa regime. Under the fertilizer policy, the Rajapaksa government […]
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A video went viral on social media claiming to be the vehicle convoy of President Ranil participating in a pre-Independence Day celebration in Kandy. These posts were shared with mixed reactions, and the Factcrescendo team’s investigation found these video posts to be miscaptioned. Social Media Posts This clip was shared among Facebook users titled “King […]
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The man is the video is not Nirmala Sitharaman’s father instead is KV Krishnan, nephew of Tamil poet Subramaniam Bharathi. A video showing the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman greeting an aged man is widely circulating on the internet. In this video, Nirmala Sitharaman can be seen greeting and speaking with an elderly person. Users […]
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