As Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa faced calls to resign over a crippling economic crisis, Facebook posts shared a photo of a message telling the leader to "go home" that they claim was beamed into the sky over the capital Colombo. However, the image was doctored from a photo of an art installation that was unveiled in Australia in 2005.
After Sri Lanka's president declared a state of emergency to quell anti-government protests, Facebook posts claimed the legislation stripped citizens of fundamental rights and allowed the military to shoot demonstrators who failed to obey orders. However, lawyers told AFP the claim is misleading, as while the state of emergency gave security forces sweeping powers to arrest