LIRNEasia recently unveiled “Dissect” – a cutting-edge web tool employing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tailored for effective fact-checking. What sets this tool apart is its compatibility with Sinhala websites, and its accessibility to anyone from anywhere in the world, making fact-checking accessible to a wider audience. The web tool was beta-launched at a recent workshop hosted by LIRNEasia in Colombo, by introducing it to a select group of Sri Lankan journalists and fact-checkers. Leading journalists from media agencies, including Daily Mirror, Mawbima, and Sunday Morning, along with fact-checkers from FactCheck.lk (Verite Research) and Citizen Fact Check, attended the workshop. 
LIRNEasia recently unveiled “Dissect” – a cutting-edge web tool employing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tailored for effective fact-checking. What sets this tool apart is its compatibility with Sinhala websites, and its accessibility to anyone from anywhere in the world, making fact-checking accessible to a wider audience. The web tool was beta-launched at a recent workshop hosted by LIRNEasia in Colombo, by introducing it to a select group of Sri Lankan journalists and fact-checkers. Leading journalists from media agencies, including Daily Mirror, Mawbima, and Sunday Morning, along with fact-checkers from FactCheck.lk (Verite Research) and Citizen Fact Check, attended the workshop. 
LIRNEasia research presented at RightsCon 2019 in Tunis 
I congratulate my colleague Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, a researcher in our big data team, for being named a finalist for the prestigious Nebula Awards.
The study by our bd4d team built on the Social Connectedness Index concept introduced by Michael Bailey (the team lead for economics research at Facebook) and others.
Analyzing Homophily and Connectivity Between Nations Through Facebook Data
The Sunday Times Plus – Review of “Numbercaste” by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne by Rohan Samarajiva “I have long been a reader of science fiction not just for entertainment, but also for insights useful for my research and teaching. After all, the very word cyberspace was coined by William Gibson, a luminary of the cyberpunk sub-genre. I like all forms of sci-fi, but find near-future science fiction the most illuminating. So I not only read, but recommend. A friend teaching about social aspects of ICTs once explained she had trouble following my reading recommendations: the plots were mostly formulaic quests, she said.