The article titled "Citizens who convince their friends to get vaccinated against COVID-19 will be rewarded by the Government" was published by the "botasot.info" portal.
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the title is generalizing, as it does not make it clear which country has made such a decision.
While the news becomes clearer only after we click on the article, where it becomes clear that this decision concerns the state of Switzerland.
Knowing that the "botasot.info" portal publishes content in Albanian and that the vast majority of its readers are from Kosovo, the article with a generalizing, rather than clarifying, title may misinform readers, implying that this decision is about the Kosovo state.
Excerpt from the text of the article published on "botasot.info":
Swiss citizens who manage to persuade their friends to get vaccinated against COVID-19 can claim free restaurant meals or free cinema tickets under a new plan aimed at boosting vaccination rates, which currently it is very low in Switzerland.
This European country has faced a number of anti-vaccination protests, with 42% of its population of 8,7 million still not fully vaccinated.
Link to the article published on "botasot.info":
Analyze:
The portal "botasot.info" has published an article about a Swiss state initiative, in which each vaccinated person will be asked to provide the name of a person who convinced them to take the vaccine dose, and who will then be sent a cash amount of 50 Swiss francs, with which they can eat a meal at a restaurant or go to the cinema. However, the title does not clarify which country is in question.
This suggests that the news is about Kosovo, knowing that this medium is registered in our country and the majority of the audience are Albanian speakers from Kosovo.
After fact-checking based on the work methodology, hibrid.info assesses 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.