Several online media outlets in Kosovo have reported on the meeting that the mayor of Pristina, Përparim Rama, held with the mayor of the Skopje “Aerodrom” (Airport) municipality, Timco Muncunski.
The announcement of this meeting was made by the Prime Minister of Pristina, Përparim Rama, on the social network Facebook, where he said that he met with the Mayor of the Municipality of Skopje Airport, with whom they had talked about various potential sectors for cross-border cooperation.
However, some online media outlets have called Rama's announcement a "misrepresentation", claiming that he has added the municipality of "Skopje Airport" to North Macedonia.
Hibrid.info has researched through online search engines, and it is clearly seen that the Skopje Airport Municipality, or in Macedonian "Komuna Aerodrom", exists.
Links to the article published on portals such as "KlanKosova.tv", "Kosovapost.net", "Arbresh.info" and "Gazetainfokus.com":
According to data available on the Internet, it can be seen that the city of Skopje, being the largest in North Macedonia and at the same time the capital, enjoys a special status, guaranteed by law, in relation to other municipalities. Since 2004, with the new law, the administration of Skopje has become different, being divided into 10 municipalities which have a council and a mayor, like all municipalities in the country, and one of them is the Airport Municipality, which in Macedonian is called "Aerodrom Municipality".
So, it is clear that Rama did not "miss" the naming of this municipality, but only called it in Albanian.
Below you can find the link to "Wikipedia" which shows that the capital of North Macedonia, Skopje, consists of 10 municipalities:
Excerpt from Wikipedia translated into Albanian:
As the capital and largest city of North Macedonia, Skopje enjoys a special status granted by law. The last revision of its status was made in 2004. Since then, the City of Skopje has been divided into 10 municipalities which have a council and a mayor, like all municipalities in the country. Municipalities deal only with issues specific to their territory, and the City of Skopje deals with issues that concern all of them, or that cannot be divided into two or more municipalities.
Also, Wikipedia shows that the municipality called the "Aerodrom" municipality in Skopje is also called the "Aeroport" municipality, since it is located near the airport of this city. (see here)
Analyze:
Some online media in Kosovo have called the naming of the Aerodrom Municipality in Skopje as a "mistake" by the mayor of Pristina, who has called it the Municipality of Skopje Airport.
However, these media outlets have distorted the facts in the article they published, claiming that such a municipality does not exist in North Macedonia. However, they have ignored the linguistic aspect.
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info assesses the article published by these media 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.