The Albanian information portal "GazetaTema.net" has published an article titled "PHOTOS: How Albin Kurti wants to take Albanian girls back a century."
After verifying the facts, hibrid.info has determined that the title is inadequate and, as such, does not correspond to the content.
The aforementioned portal also continues to discuss the issue of allowing headscarves in Kosovo schools, claiming that the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, wants to take them back a century.
However, the authorship of the photograph with which this article is illustrated is written incorrectly.
Link to the article published on the portal "GazetaTema.net":
Article published on "GazetaTema.net":
Albin Kurti wants to take girls back more than a century, to a time when they were mostly veiled.
He wants to legislate the wearing of the headscarf for girls over 16 years old.
The following photos, meanwhile, show the period more than a century ago, when girls in Albanian lands were completely covered and foreigners identified them as a backward Muslim country.
Kurti on August 12, during a press conference held after a visit to Kosovo Customs, stated that there should be no ban on the headscarf and other religious elements in the public life of citizens, invoking the freedom of citizens, while giving his position on the age threshold for young women who are allowed to wear headscarves.
"My position is that there should be no ban on the headscarf and other religious elements in the public life of citizens, but we should be free, but I have also said that the age of 16 should be the threshold, and we see the age of 16 as the threshold for many things that have happened and that should happen," Kurti said, among other things. (see here, here and here)
The portal "GazetaTema.net" in this article has used several photographs, the caption of which reads:
"The following photos, meanwhile, show the period more than a century ago, when in Albanian lands girls were completely covered and foreigners identified them as a backward Muslim country."
However, after researching through the automated online fact-checking program "InVID", hibrid.info has managed to confirm that these photographs do not relate to citizens of the Islamic faith (Muslims), as this portal claims.
These photographs were taken in Albania in 1094 by Italian photographer Giuseppe Massani. (see here)
While the illustrative photograph used in this article by "GazetaTema.net" bears the title "Catholic women at mass in Shkodra (Photo: Giuseppe Massani, 1940). (see photo below)
This article from “GazetaTema.net” has also been distributed on several other portals in Kosovo and Albania. (see here, here, here and here)
Analyze:
The portal "GazetaTema.net" has published an article claiming that the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, wants to legislate on wearing the headscarf in schools for girls over 16 years old.
The photograph used in this article does not relate to girls of the Islamic faith, as claimed by this portal, but they were taken in Albania in 1940 by Italian photographer Giuseppe Massani, while that photograph is titled "Catholic women at mass in Shkodra".
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info assesses this article as "Manipulation of facts".
Reasoning:
The evaluation as "Manipulation of facts" is given to those media reports that use facts known to be correct, but interpret them in a distorted way. These reports typically use inaccurate information to draw inaccurate conclusions or claims, thereby misdirecting consumers' conclusions of media content in relation to the actual meaning of the facts presented.