The dubious portal with Albanian-language content “Albasky.com” has published an article titled “America confirms: 'We will heavily arm Kosovo!'”.
Hibrid.info has verified the facts in this article, and has confirmed that the title is fabricated, not responding to the news contained in the content.
The content contains old news published in October 2021, at a time when the Minister of Defense, Armend Mehaj, after his official visit to the United States of America, had declared that he had received strong support for Kosovo from the US Department of Defense.
"The US Department of Defense has strongly confirmed its support for Kosovo as a partner and exporter of peace at the global level. I also received full reaffirmation towards Euro-Atlantic integration and the building of the KSF at the military level," Mehaj had expressed.
So, it is not true that America has confirmed that it will heavily arm Kosovo, as falsely claimed in the title of this article.
Link to the article published on the dubious portal "albasky.com":
The article published on “albasky.com” was also shared on Facebook by the page “Gazeta Aktive”, which has over 90 thousand followers. While this post has managed to collect a large number of reactions and comments. (see here)
After research conducted through online search engines, hibrid.info has managed to find the article published in real time (October 21, 2021) in several online media. (see here and here)
Analyze:
The dubious portal "albasky.com" has published an old statement by the Minister of Defense, Armend Mehaj, who in October last year had made a visit to the US, and after this visit had stated that the US had reconfirmed its support for the construction of the KSF at the military level.
But, this dubious portal has tried to present this article as current, giving it the fabricated title "America confirms: 'We will heavily arm Kosovo'".
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info has assessed this article as "Clickbait".
Reasoning:
“Clickbait” are those texts whose title has no basis in the content of the following text. Such texts and articles aim to attract the attention of the reader or even the consumer with a sensational title by promising content that does not actually exist and are created mainly out of financial interest, that is, due to increased readability. So, this type of text is only intended to click, which can be converted into a profit for the content producer.