Wrote: Etrit Rexhepi
An image has been published showing Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States of America (USA), with a caption claiming that the border between Kosovo and Serbia should be divided by a wall.
This picture was published today (November 12) on the Facebook page of the Albanian language medium "NTV Televizione", with the text "The border is divided by a wall/ Donald Trump's proposal for the administrative line between Kosovo and Serbia".
The image is also attached. the article from this medium's portal, with the same title.
In the meantime, Hibrid.info has noticed that the image and article have been removed after publication.
But what is the truth of this claim?
Hibrid.info has not found any official proposal from the president-elect for the border line between Kosovo and Serbia, as claimed in the content discussed.
Hibrid.info has checked the content of the article published on the portal "ntv.al", where its introduction indicates that it is a statement by Tvrtko Jakovina, professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, who expressed his opinion on the fate of the Western Balkans region after the election of Trump as president.
Headline of the article published in the medium "ntv.al"
"Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, historian Tvrtko Jakovina assessed that the world can expect the newly elected US President Donald Trump to be similar to his first term, while as for our region, he assessed that it depends on who will be in the State Department.".
After checking the article in its entirety, it has been confirmed that the content, unlike the title, does not contain the topic that claims that President Trump has made a proposal for dividing the Kosovo-Serbia border with a wall.
Likewise, a statement about such a proposal from President Trump has not come from Professor Jakovina, who is the subject of this article.
Direct quote from Tvërtko Jakovina:
"If it will be some of the people we know, then perhaps we can expect well-known and outdated proposals, one of which could be the partition of Kosovo, which could cause many other chain problems in Europe in general, because it is a renunciation of a principle that exists and could be somehow related to Ukraine, to the partition of territories there, if the war ends quickly asç it was promised".
After manual searching, it was found that the original article was published in the Serbian language medium, “n1info.rs", which was also found translated into Albanian, published by the medium "telegrafi.com", entitled, "Croatian university professor: With the return of Trump, we can expect old proposals, such as the division of Kosovo".
The current President of the United States is Joe Biden. Trump will take office as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025. He won the majority in the November 5 election.
Analyze:
The claim that Trump has proposed dividing the border between Kosovo and Serbia with a wall is incorrect.
Such a proposal did not officially come from Trump, as claimed by the media outlet ntv.al, and the content of the article does not correspond to the topic of the title.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "Disinformation" and "Clickbait".
Reasoning:
The assessment as “Disinformation” It is considered informational content that contains a "mix" of inaccurate sources or even half-truthful attributes, and that is created and/or distributed with the deliberate intention of causing harm. Behind the motive of producers/distributors of disinformation content lies the achievement of a political, financial, psychological or social goal.
Clickbait Those informative content whose title is general and does not disclose the location of the event, context and relevance are evaluated. Such texts and articles aim to attract the attention of the audience with sensational titles with misleading consequences, which do not clarify the content of the article precisely. “Clickbait” titles are mainly made to attract readability in the case of media publications and/or to earn from clicks in the case of commercial publications.