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By August 2025, Sri Lanka’s Treasury cash balance hit a positive LKR 1.2 trillion. @PublicFinanceLK explains how that balance was built, a key context for @factchecklka's recent analysis of the claim that Ditwah recovery spending was not debt-financed. 👉 Read both: bit.ly/4sTerX3; factcheck.lk/factcheck/pres…

This International Fact-checking Day, we remind you of one simple rule for navigating information: always trace it back to the original source. If you can’t #Trace-it, don’t trust it. #InternationalFactcheckingDay

False information spreads quickly. Verified information takes work. On International Fact-checking Day, let us recognise why that work matters. Verified information supports better decisions, stronger accountability, and healthier public conversation. #InternationalFactcheckingDay

Did you get fooled on April Fools' Day? Here is a trick not to get fooled the next time you get a message of unknown origin Always: 🔴Stop 🟡Trace 🟢Check If you can’t stop, trace, and check — don’t share! Check veriteresearch.org/trace-it-engli… for more information.

Sources: Khan, M. L., & Idris, I. K. (2019). Recognise misinformation and verify before sharing: A reasoned action and information literacy perspective. Behaviour & Information Technology; Altay, S., Berriche, M., Heuer, H., Farkas, J., & Rathje, S. (2023). A survey of expert views on misinformation: Definitions, determinants, solutions, and future of the field. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.

Pause. Question. Verify. In a fast-moving information environment, questioning before trusting matters.  On International Fact-checking Day, here are six questions that can help us engage more critically with the information we encounter every day. #InternationalFactcheckingDay

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Every day claims on issues of public interest are made, shared, and amplified. Factcheck.lk tracks a select sample of Sri Lankan media across Sinhala, Tamil, and English to identify and fact-check statements of public interest made by high-level decision-makers. To know more about how our fact-checks contribute to informed public conversations, check out our website! Link in the comments below 👇 #InternationalFactcheckingDay

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Does Sri Lankan law provide a process for suspending or removing a DSG or does it need to rely on British Parliamentary tradition? Read the complete fact-check to understand how S.7 of the Parliamentary Staffs Act provide a process to suspend or remove a DSG: factcheck.lk/factcheck/kiri… #Srilanka #factchecklk