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The title and photo do not describe the news, therefore the location of the event.

HIBRID

The portal "kosova-sot.info" has published an article titled "The lifeless body of a 29-year-old man is found inside the oil tanker."

After fact-checking by hibrid.info, it turns out that the title and the photo placed on the front page of the article do not clarify the news. The title of this article is general, while the photo is taken from the archive, but it shows police tape with the Albanian inscription "CRIME SCENE DO NOT PASS", while the news is about an event that occurred in Chicago, USA.

These two factors (the title and the photo) leave the possibility that readers, the vast majority of whom are Albanian speakers, considering the fact that the medium is in Albanian, will be misinformed, implying that the event took place in Kosovo.

Excerpt from the text of the article published on "kosova-sot.info":

The body of an Illinois man was found inside a tanker truck filled with gas last week after two truck drivers who were unloading it noticed the fuel wasn't flowing properly, according to reports.

Truck drivers discovered the body at a gas station outside Buckley, a village about 100 miles southwest of Chicago, Champaign's WCIA-TV reported.

Link to the article published on "kosova-sot.info":

https://www.kosova-sot.info/lajme/549332/gjendet-trupi-i-pajete-i-nje-29-vjecari-brenda-cisternes-se-naftes/


Analyze:

The title of this article does not make it clear in which country the event took place, and knowing that this portal is in Albanian and most of its readers are Kosovars, it could very easily misinform them into thinking that the event is related to Kosovo.

Also, even through the placed photograph, there is a tendency to misinform readers, as it shows police tape, on which in Albanian it says "CRIME SCENE DO NOT PASS". So, neither the title nor the photograph correspond to the content of the text, as it does not indicate that it is about events in Chicago.

After fact-checking analysis, hibrid.info has assessed 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.

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