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Fact Crescendo Sri LankaEconomy & business

Dhammika Perera funded the import of Lanka Metro Transit buses.

Publisher’s rating: False

The review reports that Lanka Metro Transit is state-owned and that the government funded the bus purchases; it found no evidence that Dhammika Perera funded them. The company chairman and the Transport Minister’s coordinating secretary also said there was no private involvement. [S1]

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaEconomy & business

வரலாற்றில் முதல் முறையாக இலங்கையின் வறுமை நிலை 65% ஆக உயர்ந்துள்ளது.

Publisher’s rating: Missing Context

The review says the 65% figure is misleading: it is an estimate under the World Bank’s $8.30-a-day upper-middle-income poverty line, not evidence that Sri Lanka’s overall poverty rate rose to 65%. It contrasts that figure with 25.0% for 2024 under the $4.20-a-day lower-middle-income line, and says the World Bank’s main forecast was for that rate to fall to 20.1% in 2026.

فکت‌نامهEconomy & business

گزارش تورم غذا در شهریور ۱۴۰۵؛ متوسط هزینه تهیه سبد کالابرگ به ۱۷ میلیون تومان رسید

Publisher’s rating: مرکز آمار ایران نرخ نقطه به نقطه تورم مواد غذایی را در شهریورماه ۱۲۲ درصد اعلام کرده است. با این حساب تورم نقطه‌ای خوراکی‌ها برای هشتمین ماه متوالی همچنان سه رقمی است.

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaEconomy & business

22 වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සම්මත වීමෙන් පසු ඉන්ධන මිළ ඉහළ ගොස් ඇති බව සඳහන් සමාජ මාධ්‍ය සටහනක් සංසරණය වේ.

Publisher’s rating: False

Fact Crescendo concluded that the circulating post was false: it showed prices from a May 2 increase, not the prices in effect after the amendment passed. The review says prices had fallen on June 29 and August 31, and reports that the prices in effect on September 30 midday were those set after the August reduction.

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaEconomy & business

ලෝක බැංකු වාර්තාවකට අනුව ඉතිහාසයේ ප්‍රථම වරට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දරිද්‍රතාවය 65% ක් බවට පත්ව ඇත.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The review says the 65.4% figure was a World Bank forecast for 2026 using the $8.30-a-day poverty line, not a general estimate that Sri Lanka’s poverty rate had reached 65%. The October 2026 update revised that forecast to 59.1%; the review also notes that this line is a different benchmark from the $4.20-a-day poverty measure.

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaEconomy & business

කිසිදු අධ්‍යාපන සුදුසුකමක් නොමැතිව ඊශ්‍රායලයේ රැකියා ලබා ගත හැකි බවට පවසන පණිවිඩය

Publisher’s rating: False

The review says the circulating message promising Israeli jobs without educational qualifications and with high salaries is a scam. It reports that Sri Lanka’s Foreign Employment Bureau said the link was unofficial and fraudulent, and that official registrations are handled through its own websites.

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaEconomy & business

Dilith Jayaweera claimed on live TV that 75 percent of Sri Lankans are poor and that the share of the impoverished backing the government has doubled.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The review found no official figure or recognized poverty estimate putting three in four Sri Lankans in poverty. It also says the rise in poverty largely traces to the 2022–2023 crisis, before the current government took office, and that available statistics cannot establish a poverty rate for government voters as a group.