The Centre for Media and Information Literacy
Rapid advancement in technology and the changing socio-economic and political dynamic in Sri Lanka have created more room for the spread of alarming misinformation and disinformation.
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For the first time, citizens in Sri Lanka expressed their displeasure over declining public trust and accountability of media.
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CMIL realizes the need for constant research on how media influences the public mindset and their ability to create a vibrant democracy, maintaining governance accountability.
Learn MoreFor the first time, citizens in Sri Lanka expressed their displeasure over declining public trust and accountability of media. The way the media treated and dealt with a series of incidents of ethnic violence (2018/2019), an attempted parliamentary coup (2018), the Easter Sunday attacks (2019), and the presidential election (2019), demonstrated its failure to provide true, impartial and inclusive news and information. Added to this, an unregulated digital sphere becomes highly vulnerable to hate speech and disinformation and misinformation.
The following strategic advocacy priorities have been identified by CMIL.
