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“ෆේස්බුක් හරහා වෛරී සහගත ප්‍රකාශ නිකුත් කල පුද්ගලයෙකුගේ අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම පිලිබඳ නොමඟ යවන සුළු පුවත් පෙළක්! This person was arrested for making defamatory statements on Buddhist monks and leading to disharmony among communities”
Lanka News Web Claim dated 13 Jan 2021.
Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka rated thisMissing Context

What Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka found

The person arrested remarks about President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yet toward the end of the video states that he has no issues with the President. In fact he uses filth and blames Buddhist monks claiming that there are the ones who requested the president to make such statements

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Lanka News Web made this claim around 13 January 2021. Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka) looked into it and published its finding on 14 January 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Missing Context”.

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