Three Facebook social media pages with content in the Albanian language, "Muzike Shqiptare", "Gazeta unike.al" and "Lajme.al 1" have published today (May 2) an article titled "Remarkable, German Embassy Issues Announcement About Work Visas, Waiting List For Appointments Opens On This Date...".
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that this announcement by the German Embassy is old, published in September 2021. So, suspicious pages on Facebook have tried to present this old news as current.
The above-mentioned sites took this old article from the dubious portal "sitenewspaper.com", published on September 7, 2021. (see here)
Links to the article published on May 2 on the social media Facebook from the pages "Muzike Shqiptare", "Gazeta unike.al" and "Lajme.al 1":
After research conducted through online search engines and social media, hibrid.info managed to find this announcement from the German Embassy published in real time (September 3, 2021) on its official Facebook page. (see here)
Analyze:
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the pages "Muzike shqiptare", "Gazeta unike.al" and "Lajme.al 1" have published on Facebook an old announcement for work visas from the German Embassy (September 2021) with the claim of presenting it as current.
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info evaluates this article as "Clickbait".
Reasoning:
The “Clickbait” rating is given to texts whose titles have 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 intended only to click, which can be converted into a profit for the content producer.