The information portal "Kosova-sot.info" has published today (November 25) an article titled "Massive Beating at the University: Punches, Kicks and Strong Tools".
The title of this article does not make clear the news presented in the content. Also, this title does not clarify the country or state of origin of the news.
The news is clarified only in the content, where it is announced that this event took place in Istanbul:
A massive beating has occurred at Istanbul University, reports "Kosova Sot Online".
6 students were attacked by a group of 20 people as they were leaving the cafeteria.
Knowing that this portal is registered in Kosovo (see here) and most of its readers are Albanian speakers (see here), such a generalizing headline could misinform readers, leading them to assume that the beating took place at a university in Kosovo.
Link to the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
After research conducted through online search engines, hibrid.info managed to find the video published by the Turkish media "T24 Haber" on the online platform "Dailymotion.com". (see here)
Analyze:
"Kosova-sot.info" has published an article regarding a fight that occurred at Istanbul University, while the title does not clarify which country it is referring to.
This online medium is a portal that operates in Kosovo and that has a dominant number of readers from Kosovo, based on the page's followers on Facebook. Therefore, not providing information about the location of the incident could very easily misinform readers, making them think that this event took place at a university 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.