Facebook page “Minuti Newspaper" published on Tuesday, June 23, an article titled "Exclusive | This is LDK's offer to LVV?!". The article was published on a website called "blog.foodsfact.org".
In this ITEM, referring to Gazeta Minuti's sources within the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), it is claimed that this party is considering an offer for cooperation with the Self-Determination Movement (LVV) within the framework of negotiations for the formation of new institutions.
According to the claim, the LDK would demand the post of president of Kosovo, four ministries, and the position of first deputy prime minister, as conditions for reaching an eventual agreement with the LVV.
What's wrong with this claim?
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it was confirmed that the website "blog.foodsfact.org" is suspicious and this claim has not been found published in the media or credible sources.
Hibrid.info searched Google with the keywords ""Is this LDK's offer to LVV?!" The results do not show any information published in credible media regarding this claim.
Why is this content suspicious?
The page "Gazeta Minuti", the content it publishes on Facebook, posts on several websites with names such as nminut.info, gazetaminuti.com, and currently also on blog.foodsfact.orgThere is no section on these websites that shows an address, contact information, or information about who is behind it.
Hibrid.info has previously verified this page as publishing misinformation (see here the article).
The content published by the page "Gazeta Minuti" was then shared by other pages on Facebook such as "Reality","InfoShqip.com","Daily Newspaper","Speak Albanian"and "Gazetavip.com", as well as on the Albanian-language portal operating in North Macedonia "ina-online.net".
About the page "Gazeta Minuti"
Hibrid.info has handled a total of 9 contents published by the page “Gazeta Minuti”. Based on our methodology, these contents have been assessed as “Fake news”, “Manipulation of facts”, “Unverified content” and “Disinformation” (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here).
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Analyze
The Facebook page “Gazeta Minuti” has published a claim that the LDK is considering an offer for cooperation with the LVV, which would include a request for the post of president, four ministries and the position of first deputy prime minister. This claim was published on the dubious website “blog.foodsfact.org”.
Verification conducted by Hibrid.info has not found any confirmation of this information in credible media. Also, the website where the article was published does not provide data on ownership, address or contacts, which raises doubts about its reliability.
The content was also shared by several other Facebook pages, while "Gazeta Minuti" has a history of publishing misinformation content that has previously been addressed by hibrid.info, and has been assessed as fake news, disinformation, manipulation of facts, and unverified content.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses the content published by this site as "unverified".
rationale
The "Unverified" rating is given to those informative contents that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which could not be verified due to certain circumstances (speed, lack of sources) during the publication of the content.