Investigation provided information regarding whether this statement was issued by the President’s Media Division, and upon clarification learnt that they never provided a statement as such. Moreover, it was not published in any of the other mainstream media. We were able to discover that the above post was edited using an article published in the ‘Lankadeepa’ newspaper on 14th June 2021 regarding a statement issued by the Presidential Media Division about fuel price. The article in the post has been edited from a former news item published in ‘Lankadeepa’ newspaper. https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-bakery-owners-to-increase-price-of-baked-goods-to-reflect-rising-costs-85224/ https://www.newsfirst.lk/2021/08/19/prices-of-bakery-items-to-increase-from-monday-23-bread-prices-up-by-rs-05/