Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
Online medium in Albanian "Ntv.al" published an article on Friday (September 5) titled "Knife wound to teacher, the moment when police shoot dead student from Kosovo."
The news concerns the incident on Friday (September 5), where a teacher was attacked with a knife at a vocational school in the city of Essen, in western Germany. According to German media, the suspected perpetrator of the attack is a 17-year-old from Kosovo, a student at the same school.
What's wrong with the title?
After fact-checking by hibrid.info, it was confirmed that the title of the article is incorrect. The suspect in the attack on the teacher in Germany was not killed by the police, but was injured.
The title of the article published on "Ntv.al" claims that the suspect in this crime was killed by German police, while the content explains that he was injured.
Excerpt from the article published on "Ntv.al":
After the attack, the young man left the school premises and was located by police in a nearby park. German media, including DPA and Bild, report that when law enforcement approached him to stop him, he tried to attack the police as well, running towards them with a knife in his hand.
As a result, the police were forced to use firearms, wounded the suspect.
To further confirm the fact that the suspect in this crime was injured by the police and then the emergency services took the victim and the suspected perpetrator to the hospital, hibrid.info has found articles in German media that reported on this event. (see here and here)
Likewise, the official X account of the Essen police, yesterday (September 5) through a post reported that |According to the findings so far, the arrested person is a single perpetrator and does not pose a danger to the population. (see here)
Analyze:
The media outlet "Ntv.al" published an incorrect headline on September 5th about an event in Essen, Germany, claiming that the student from Kosovo who attacked a teacher with a knife was killed by police.
After verifying the facts, it was confirmed that the 17-year-old suspect was injured by police and taken to hospital, along with the injured teacher. German media and the Essen police statement confirm that there were no fatalities.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info evaluates the article published by "Ntv.al" as "Clickbait" and "Disinformation".
Reasoning:
“Clickbait” is considered to be informational content whose title is general and does not disclose the location of the event, context and relevance. Such texts and articles aim to attract the attention of the audience with sensational headlines with misleading consequences, which do not accurately clarify the content of the article. “Clickbait” headlines are mainly made to attract readability in the case of media publications and/or to earn from clicks in the case of commercial publications.
"Disinformation" is defined as information content that contains a "mix" of inaccurate sources or even half-truthful attributes, and that is created and/or distributed with the deliberate intention of causing harm. The motive behind the producers/distributors of disinformation content lies in achieving a political, financial, psychological or social goal.