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ඥානසාර හිමියන්ගේ සිවුර සම්බන්ධයෙන් මාධ්‍යවේදී තරිඳු ජයවර්ධන "ජම්පර්" ප්‍රකාශයක් කළේය.
Publisher’s rating: අසත්‍ය
Sri Lanka records 385,000 Muslim births and 750,000 Sinhalese abortions a year, and Muslims will become the majority by 2060 unless each Sinhalese family has more than three children.
Publisher’s rating: False
A photo showing a huge crowd of monks and laypeople along a road is a real scene from the first day of the march for Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thero at Pilimatalawa.
Publisher’s rating: False
The review says footage from Pilimatalawa showed only a small group, while the viral image used the same location’s background. It concludes that a real photo of the scene was used to create an AI-generated image of a huge crowd.
ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන් නිදහස් කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා ආරම්භ කළ පා ගමනට විශාල භික්ෂූන් හා ගිහියන් පිරිසක් සහභාගී වූ බව පෙන්වන ඡායාරූපයක් ලෙස සමාජ මාධ්‍යවල සංසරණය වන ඡායාරූපය.
Publisher’s rating: අසත්‍යයි
2026 ඔක්තෝබර් 8 වැනිදා ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක සමඟ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවෙන් පසු, තමන් මෙතෙක් අනවබෝධයක සිටි බවත්, ජනාධිපතිවරයා සිවිල් හා අපරාධ නීතිය පැහැදිලි කර දුන් බවත් දක්වමින් මහා සංඝරත්නය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කළා ය.
Publisher’s rating: අසත්‍යයි
A photo shows Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero wearing a prison jumper, without his robe, during his imprisonment in 2018.
Publisher’s rating: False
The review says the circulating image was edited from a December 31, 2012, Daily News photo that did not show Gnanasara Thero. It also reports that he wore the prescribed prison uniform in 2018, but says no photos or footage exist of him publicly appearing in it then.
A photo shows Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith travelling in Europe with the son of Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena.
Publisher’s rating: False
The review identifies the man in the photo as Fr. Shashika Manoj Rodrigo, the Cardinal’s secretary, not one of the Chief Justice’s sons. It says Rodrigo and an Archdiocese of Colombo spokesperson confirmed his identity and that he has no family relationship with the Chief Justice.
කාදිනල් මැල්කම් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් යුරෝපයේ සංචාරයක නිරත වන අතර, ඡායාරූපයේ ඔහු අසල සිටින්නේ අගවිනිසුරු ප්‍රීති පද්මන් සූරසේනගේ පුත්‍රයා ය.
Publisher’s rating: False
A licence is now required to chant the Jayamangala Gatha at weddings and parties in Sri Lanka.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
The review says the licensing scheme covered commercially used copyrighted music, not the Jayamangala Gatha, and that ACPOSL confirmed no licence or fee was required for the chant. It also distinguishes those charges from private family functions held at home.
A video shows devotees in Karnataka vandalising barricades after authorities restricted Ganesh idol immersion
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The review finds that the video was recorded in Hyderabad, not Karnataka. It shows members of the Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samithi removing barricades at Tank Bund while protesting restrictions on Ganesh idol immersion.
The video shows the 136-year-old Gauripur Jama Masjid near Kolkata airport being demolished by religious extremists to make way for a Ram temple.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review says the video shows a mob vandalising the house of Mustafa Pramanik in Pabna, Bangladesh, not the Gauripur Jama Masjid. It reports that the mosque was set to be relocated for airport security and runway expansion, and that it found no credible reports of the mosque being vandalised.
RSS కార్యకర్తలు బ్రిటన్ రాణికి గౌరవ వందనం చేస్తున్నప్పటి ఫోటో.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
బీజేపీ నేత బండి సంజయ్ తన కుమార్తెను ఒక క్రైస్తవుడికి ఇచ్చి క్రిస్టియన్ పద్ధతిలో పెళ్లి చేశారు.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
ویدیوی نماز جماعت ۷۰۰ میلیونی در هند
Publisher’s rating: شاخدار
The video shows 41 Nepali citizens converting to Islam following the August 2026 flash floods.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
FACTLY reports that the video was online by 11 June 2023, before the 26 August 2026 floods, so it does not show a conversion following those floods. The review says the footage appears to have been filmed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but it could not independently verify the people’s identities or nationalities.
Visuals showing a Hindu teacher being attacked by Muslims in Bangladesh.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review identifies the woman in the video as Zakia Sultana, a Muslim clothing-business owner, and says the incident stemmed from a business dispute with a former employee. Rajbari police officer Uttam Kumar Ghosh confirmed there was no religious angle to the incident.
The video shows a Hindu man harassing an elderly Muslim man by making odd gestures behind him.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
FACTLY reports that the video features two friends who regularly make comedy videos and is staged, not a real incident of religious harassment. The review says the same video was posted on Instagram with the text “Comedy” and caption “Comedy movie.”
نقل قول منتسب به مدیر حوزه علمیه شیراز مبنی بر امکان عقد موقت زنان شوهردار
Publisher’s rating: شاخدار
Sri Lanka's first-ever Jewish synagogue has opened for prayers in Hiriketiya.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
The video shows a Muslim woman throwing slippers at a statue of Shivaji Maharaj.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
FACTLY reports that the video shows a woman throwing slippers at a Shivaji Maharaj statue in Sasane Nagar, Pune, and identifies her as Ashwini Dagde, a Hindu. It says a senior police inspector confirmed her identity and that police filed a case and arrested her.