The dubious portal "Newstoday48hr.com" has published an old article about visa liberalization for Kosovo and the European Parliament's (EP) decision regarding this issue.
The article bears the fabricated title "Big news coming for Kosovo / Here's what the European Parliament approved regarding Kosovo visas...", claiming that, by republishing this article, it presents it as current.
The article concerns a statement by the EP rapporteur for Kosovo, Viola von Cramon, about voting in favor of visa liberalization for Kosovo.
After fact-checking by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the title, with the description "breaking news", contradicts the content, given that the article presents old news.
Link to the article published on the dubious portal "Newstoday48hr.com":
This article with a false title was also shared on the social network Facebook by the page "Gazeta aktive" on August 5 (see here).
The content of the article is related to the adoption of the report on Kosovo by the EP Foreign Affairs Committee, which calls for the lifting of visas. The article also includes the statement of the rapporteur on Kosovo, Viola von Cramon, that Kosovo has met all the criteria for visa liberalization. The authentic version of the news, on which “Newstoday48hr.com” is based, has been published by several credible media outlets in the Albanian language (see here, and here) at the time the event occurred (June 14).
Analyze:
The dubious portal "Newstoday48hr.com" has published an old news story from June about the adoption of the report on Kosovo by the European Parliament, which called for the lifting of visas for Kosovo citizens, as well as the statement of the rapporteur for Kosovo in this parliament, Viola von Cramon, on the fulfillment of standards.
This dubious portal has tried to present this news from June as current by publishing it today (August 5) with the title "Big news coming for Kosovo / Here's what the European Parliament approved regarding Kosovo visas...".
For this reason, hibrid.info rates 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.