The TikTok account named "lumjanana009" published a short video (15 seconds) yesterday (March 19) claiming that 40 Serbs have left Mitrovica over the last two days.
In this video, the aforementioned account has also attached two photographs with which it has raised this claim.
After research conducted through the automated online program "InVID", hibrid.info has confirmed that the photos used by this account are old, one from 1999 and the other from 2021, and relate to other events.
Link to the video material published on TikTok by the account "lumjanana009":
The first photo used by this account was taken in 1999 by photographer "Srđan Šuki" and has the caption “Serb civilians from Prizren fled Kosovo in June 1999”. (see here)
The second photo was taken in September 2021, when Kosovo banned the entry of vehicles with Serbian license plates, and some Serbian citizens moved on foot. The photo was taken by photographer "Irfan Ličina". (see here)
Also, no online media in Kosovo or Serbia has reported on the departure of Serbs from Mitrovica in recent days, as falsely claimed by the aforementioned TikTok account.
Analyze:
After verifying the facts, hibrid.info has confirmed that the TikTok account "lumjanana009" has raised a false claim about the departure of 40 thousand Serbs from Mitrovica over the last two days, using photographs of events from 1999 and 2021.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this video material as "Fake News".
Reasoning:
The "Fake News" rating is given to media reports that are entirely the product of a medium that itself contains factually incorrect claims or information.
Content that is considered fake news can be reliably determined to have been created and distributed with the intent to misinform the public, i.e., to present a claim that is completely false as fact.