Posts have been published on Facebook, with the image captioned "BREAKING NEWS / No more 30 euro surcharges".
A piece of content with this caption was published on Monday (August 17) by pages with the names "Pristina City","Trendi.info” and on Tuesday (August 18) on the page named “Daily Newspaper".
What's wrong with this inscription?
The caption does not clarify that it is about verifying beneficiaries of the allowances and the possibility of removing those who do not meet the criteria from the scheme.
The posts have not had any significant engagement, except for the post on the page named "Prishtina City", which by the time of treatment has received over 130 reactions and over 30 comments. In some of the comments, there is a tendency to perceive the information as a decision to stop granting allowances.
Page "Pristina City"has over 410 thousand followers,"Trendi.info" has over 63 thousand of them while the page "Daily Newspaper"has nearly 10 thousand followers."
These posts have a link to an article attached to them. The article published in the domain "enyenikredi.com" has the same title as the posts (BREAKING NEWS / No more 30 euro surcharges).
Right at the beginning of the text it says: "The Ministry of Finance, Labor and Transfers has launched an extensive process of verification of beneficiaries of child allowances in Kosovo, with the aim of ensuring that payments from the state budget end up only with families that meet the established criteria.. "
This indicates that the text reports the removal from the scheme of beneficiaries who do not meet the established criteria.
This is not clarified in the title, which may create the impression that the 30 euro allowance is being banned for all beneficiaries.
Hibrid.info verified the veracity of the claim contained in the article. Through the search engine "Google", looking with the keywords "verification allowances", an article published on July 19 in the online medium "Telegrafi.com" was found, which reports on the same verification process of child allowance beneficiaries (see here).
In addition to the claim, the source was also researched. Hibrid.info checked the domain on which the news was published, through the online tool “urlscan”. The results analyzed through the “Google Gemini” chatbot show that the technical profile of this domain is common for websites created for generating advertising traffic or massive content distribution (see here).
This data suggests that publishing articles with such titles by these Facebook pages may serve to attract traffic to the domain and, consequently, to content monetized through advertising.
What are child allowances?
Child allowances are monthly financial support provided to families for their children, through a scheme created by the Government of Kosovo. Through this scheme, families who meet the criteria benefit from a certain monthly amount for each child (see here).
Analyze:
The content claiming that “there are no 30 euro allowances” does not clearly present information regarding the verification of child allowance beneficiaries.
The article states that the Ministry of Finance, Labor and Transfers has begun verifying beneficiaries, with the aim of removing those who do not meet the established criteria from the scheme.
This information has also been confirmed by previous reports, including an article published on July 19 on "Telegrafi.com", which reports on the verification of beneficiaries of child allowances.
However, the title does not clarify that it refers to beneficiaries who do not meet the criteria and may create the impression that the 30 euro allowances are being banned in general.
Therefore, based on its working methodology, Hibrid.info evaluates this content as "Clickbait".
rationale
“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.