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 A post pairing a photo of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake with a Criminal Investigation Department backdrop made a striking claim: that Rs. 50 million from an account belonging to identified organised criminal and drug trafficker Kanjipani Imran had reached a party fund, and that the matter was under investigation. With […]
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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 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 A striking line raced across Sri Lankan social media: a third of the money the country borrowed from the International Monetary Fund had been stolen, some posts went further and accused the government of pocketing it. The charge was explosive, and the figure sounded precise enough to believe. We traced […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel President Anura Kumara Dissanayake had been expected to travel to France in mid-July 2026. As that date neared, a post spread across social media claiming France had rejected the President’s visa outright, and had done so over the Negombo Prison deaths, an alleged central bank fraud, a fraudulent passport tender […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel On July 10, 2026, the Thambuttegama Water Supply Project was officially opened and handed over to the public under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Within hours, a video carrying the News 1st logo began spreading, claiming the project had been halted amid public protests and that 50 demonstrators […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel The violent clash between two groups of inmates at Negombo Prison on July 5 and 6, 2026, a crisis that left 26 people dead with dozens hospitalised, set off a wave of public anger. Bad actors moved to exploit that volatile moment for political and personal ends, floating doctored cards […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When politicians get arrested over underworld ties, old photos have a way of resurfacing with new, convenient captions. SJB Horana organizer Charith Abeysinghe and Rakitha Rajapaksa, son of former Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa, were arrested a few days ago on bribery charges linked to organised crime figure ‘Harak Kata.’ This […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Sri Lanka Cricket’s governance crisis has kept the sport in the headlines for months, and any hint of fresh ICC pressure tends to spread fast. This week, posts claimed ICC Chairman Jay Shah personally warned President Anura Kumara Dissanayake that Sri Lanka would be blacklisted again unless SLC elections were […]
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