Content is published with the caption and title "'I have recordings and transcripts, Kurti and Vučić in the same room', Osmani tells his former partner what he will 'find' after the elections".
Articles with this caption and title were published on Wednesday (May 13) on Facebook, on media pages such as "NewspaperDemos","Mitrovica TODAY","Prishtinapress","'Epoka e Re' newspaper" and on the websites "MitrovicaSot.net","GazetaPapirus.com"and "EpokaeRe.com".
What's wrong with the content?
The contents presented a statement by Vjosa Osmani, the presidential candidate from the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). However, her statement was not presented in full, which distorted the meaning of what Osmani expressed.
Hibridi.info, within the content discussed, found the quote from Osman's statement (see here).
Osman's full quote:
"Almost a year later they're saying: 'What did you say there?' The question is not what I said in a meeting that was public with dozens of people. The question is what he said except with Vučić and Lajčak in a room. Nobody else was there. What did he say, do you know? I don't know either. The President of the Republic of Kosovo, but they haven't told me what they said. You've been to the parliament. Has he ever told you as an opposition? Never. So, don't you think they have an obligation to appear before the citizens? With a chamber, alone...alone, the Prime Minister of Kosovo, the President of Serbia and that Lajčak Epšetina. The three of us have, the three of us have...and quite a long time. What is the question? I have the transcript of what I discussed, the recording... I will make it public. But in the next parliament, a parliamentary investigative committee, I will ask what they discussed. What is the question: what did they discuss? What are they hiding?"
The quoted statement was also confirmed by a video material published on the Facebook page of the media outlet "Infokokus" (see here).
This means that Vjosa Osmani has stated that for a meeting where many people were present (without specifying exactly which meeting), she possesses a transcript and recording of her part of the discussion and has said that she will publish them. Meanwhile, she has raised questions regarding another meeting, where according to her only the acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti, the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Miroslav Lajčak were present, emphasizing that it is not known what was discussed there.
In this case, the failure to clarify in the captions and titles above that the recording and transcript relate to a discussion in which Osmani herself participated may lead the audience to mistakenly perceive that she is claiming to have recordings of the meeting between Kurti and Vučić.
Analyze:
Inscription: “'I have recordings and transcripts, Kurti and Vučić in the same room', Osmani tells his former partner what he will 'find' after the elections", does not present the complete statement of former President Osmani.
In the full statement, Osmani says that she possesses a transcript and recording of a discussion in which she herself participated and that she will publish that material. Meanwhile, regarding another meeting between Kurti, Vučić and Miroslav Lajčak, she only raises questions and calls for a parliamentary investigation, without claiming to have recordings of that meeting.
Failure to clarify this difference in titles and captions may cause the audience to misperceive that Osmani claims to have recordings of the Kurti-Vuçić meeting.
Based on the evaluation methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "Manipulation of facts".
Reasoning:
“Factual manipulation” is a rating given to informational content that uses facts known to be accurate but interprets them in a distorted manner. These reports typically use accurate information to draw incorrect conclusions or claims, thereby misleading consumers of media content about the actual meaning of the facts presented.