Wrote: Etrit Rexhepi
An article titled, "The public gave Albania second place, but political votes placed it in eighth place.".
it CONTENT was published by the Albanian language medium, “albaniannews.net”. The publication date is not specified, but in page On this medium's Facebook page, the post was published yesterday (May 18).
But what's wrong with the claim?
The article is about Albania's participation in the European song contest "Eurovision". Albania was represented by "Shkodra Elektronike" with the song "Zjerm" and finished eighth in this competition, receiving 218 points, from a combination of votes from professional juries of the participating countries and the public. The data shows that with the public votes alone, Albania does not rank second, as written in the title.
Unlike the title, the content clarifies that after the jury votes, Albania was given votes from the public, which for a moment placed it in second position, as shown in the photo in this article.
Article content
"After 45 points from the juries and 16th position, Albania received a full 173 points from the public votes and in a few moments climbed to second position.
In total, in this edition, Albania has received 218 points.
The process of announcing the winning song required that the jury's evaluation of the participating countries be presented first, and then the countries were notified of the total points from the public votes, which were then added together with the jury votes and gave the final result for each song in the final.
After the jury vote, Albania ranked 16th with 45 points (see here).
Then, the presentation of the public votes began with the countries ranked below. Albania was the 11th country out of 26 in this ranking. When there were 15 countries left that were expected to be announced with the official result of the public points, Albania with 173 additional points, was positioned as the second at that moment (see here).
When the results were announced, Albania was ultimately ranked eighth, with 218 points.
Hibrid.info found that by removing the jury votes, four countries had more points than Albania, which placed it in fifth place (see here).
Ranking of Eurovision countries by public vote
Which proves that, apart from the moment of the public's announcement of the points, Albania did not rank second in the final votes.
Analyze
The title claims that, according to public votes, Albania ranked second in the European song festival "Eurovision".
However, the content clarifies that Albania held this position for a moment. The article does not show Albania's ranking by public vote.
Therefore, based on its working methodology, hibrid.info evaluates the content as "Clickbait".
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