This week saw the end of a two decades old political dynasty in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 + mass protests over the country's economic collapse.

It also saw the spread of viral mis/disinfo + misleading claims about the protests. We reported on this for @BBCWorld. 🧵(1/n)

Photos: Reuters This week while angry protestors stormed Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's house and broke into the Prime Minister's office in Colombo, misleading claims of other break-ins spread on social media. (2/n)

Arpita Bhuvnesh was 26 and died fighting Covid, a disease she contracted while trying to arrange medical help for her father, who was also Covid positive and on a ventilator at the time. Two weeks later, her father too passed away. (1/n) Arpita and I were classmates. Last night I opened her Facebook where she had begged for plasma for her father a few weeks ago. The latest post is from a well wisher: “Arpita beta how are mom and dad feeling.” A few days later: “Arpita beta how are you doing.” No response. (2/n)