Former Minister of Economic Development, Valdrin Lluka, posted on his official Twitter account on August 14, saying that he and his family had received the Russian anti-covid vaccine, and that it was later Lluka himself who showed that all this was just satire.
Valdrin Llukë's full post:
"My family and I have taken the Russian COVID-19 vaccine and if you are worried that it has not been tested, I have tried it and I am happy to report that there are no side effects," Luke had written.
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However, this entire article caused a huge stir in online media, which took it as truth.
Lluka was later forced to clarify that he had been ironic about the Russian vaccine.
"The Russian vaccine was a joke and is fake news. Don't write about it as if it were true," the former minister later explained on his Facebook profile.
Links to some online media outlets that spread the news as true:
Reasoning:
Satire – Its rating includes content that uses premeditated news that uses satire to portray reality. This is also a way of reporting that is not problematic, if the media manages to argue that it is satirical content.