The information portal "Kosova-sot.info" published yesterday (October 3) an article titled "They went hunting, 76-year-old man accidentally kills his friend."
After fact-checking this article, conducted by hibrid.info, it turns out that the headline did not make the news and location of this development clear. The news is clarified only in the content, which states that “a tragic incident occurred during hunting in Teano, near Caserta, where 57-year-old Aldo De Francesco lost his life after being shot in the back by his 76-year-old friend.”
Considering that this information portal is registered in Kosovo (see here) and most of its readers are Albanian speakers (see here), this may misinform readers that the event took place in our country.
In addition to the generalizing title, the photograph included in this article also does not correspond to the content, as it shows police tape with the words "CRIME SCENE DO NOT PASS" written in Albanian, which suggests that the event took place in an Albanian-speaking country.
Excerpt from the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
A tragic incident occurred during a hunt in Teano, near Caserta, where 57-year-old Aldo De Francesco lost his life after being shot in the back by his 76-year-old friend.
The incident occurred at around 13:30 p.m. yesterday. According to what was reconstructed by the carabinieri of the Teano de Francesco station, a construction contractor had set out to hunt wild boar with a group of 10 hunters.
Link to the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
Analyze:
The title of the article published by “Kosova-sot.info” does not state in which country this murder took place. Also, in the illustrative photograph, police tape is seen that says in Albanian “CRIME SCENE DO NOT PASS”, which implies that the incident took place in an Albanian-speaking country.
The news is clarified only in the content, where it is revealed that this event took place in Teano, Italy.
The information portal "Kosova.info" is a portal that operates in Kosovo and whose primary readers are from Kosovo (based on the page's followers on Facebook). Therefore, by not providing information about the country in question, this news could very easily misinform its readers, making them think that the shooting took place in Kosovo.
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.