Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
"Two-year-old falls from 15th floor," is the title of an article published on May 17.
The article was published by the news agency KosovaPress on the official website, as well as on the page KosovaPress on Facebook.
What's wrong with this article?
The title of this article is a generalization, which does not clarify in which country the event took place. After clicking on the article link, the content clarifies that the event took place in Maryland, USA.
Part of the article text
A two-year-old boy fell from the fifteenth floor of a skyscraper near the US capital, Washington, and survived.
The fall from the apartment balcony was reportedly cushioned by bushes on the ground, according to a spokesman for the local fire department in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Why does the lack of clarification of the location of the event in the title lead to ambiguity in this case?
KosovaPress is a registered business Kosovo Business Registration Agency (ARBK), and the lack of clarification of the location of the event in the title may misinform readers that it is about an event that took place in Kosovo or an Albanian-speaking country.
To further confirm the fact that the event took place in the USA, hibrid.info has found articles published in American media, which have reported on it. (see here and here)
Analyze:
The article titled “Two-year-old falls from the 15th floor,” published by KosovaPress on May 17, does not indicate the location of the incident. This omission could misinform readers, leading them to think that the incident occurred in Kosovo or some Albanian-speaking country.
The content clarifies the news, stating that the event occurred in Maryland, USA, where a two-year-old survived after falling from the 15th floor of a building.
Hibrid.info has verified that the news was also reported by American media. Based on its working methodology, hibrid.info assesses this article as "Clickbait".
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.