The article titled "Two girls aged 15 and 17 are raped by several people" was published yesterday (September 16) by the information portal "Kosova-sot.info".
After fact-checking by hibrid.info, it turns out that the headline did not make the news and location of this event clear. This is only made clear in the content, which states that “two teenage sisters in India have been found raped and lifeless, hanging from a tree, in the latest incident of sexual violence that has shocked the country.”
Considering that this portal is registered in Kosovo (see here) and most of its readers are Albanian speakers (see here), this may misinform readers, making them assume that the event took place in Kosovo.
It is worth noting that, in addition to the title, the photo of the article does not correspond to the content, as it shows police tape with the Albanian text "DO NOT CROSS THE POLICE TAPE", which also serves to create a false perception among readers.
Excerpt from the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
Two teenage sisters in India have been found raped and lifeless, hanging from a tree, in the latest incident of sexual violence to shock the country.
The bodies of the girls, aged 15 and 17, were found hanging by their scarves from a tree near their home in the Lakhimpur neighbourhood.
Link to the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
Analyze:
The title of the article published by "Kosova-sot.info" does not state in which country two girls aged 15 and 17 were raped.
Also, in the illustrative photograph, a police tape is seen that says in Albanian "POLICE TAPE DO NOT PASS", which suggests that the incident took place in an Albanian-speaking country. While the news is clarified only in the content, where it is stated that this incident took place in India.
This online medium is a portal that operates in Kosovo and whose primary readers are from Kosovo, based on the page's Facebook followers. Therefore, not providing information about the location of the event can very easily misinform readers, making them think that a news story is about some development 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.