An image is published showing Albin Kurti at an earlier age at a train station.
He is sitting on a wooden bench, side by side with a woman with red hair. The scene includes elements such as other passengers in motion, a train in the background, and a station sign that reads “Železnička Stanica Beograd.”
image has the inscription "Photo of Kurti and Serbian lover Lidija Sokolovic from '90s Belgrade emerges" and was published on Saturday (September 5) on TikTok by the account named "infofakte10".
What is the truth?
The image is manipulated or created by artificial intelligence (AI).
By the time the claim was addressed, the content featuring it had received over 17 views, over 23 likes and comments, some of which indicated that the audience was likely to perceive it as accurate.
The same content was found posted on Facebook by accounts with the names "Shukri Meholli”And“Bardh Nengurra".
Due to the unnaturalness displayed in the image, hibrid.info has checked it through the artificial intelligence platform "HiveModeration".
Based on the analysis conducted through this platform, it was determined that the image has a very high probability of 96.7% of being generated by AI and a rate of 64.5% as a Deepfake.
The platform has also identified potential sources of generation (such as pixverse, pika and wan).
It is not the first time that similar allegations have circulated in the digital space about the acting Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and alleged connections with the family of former Serbian minister Zoran Sokolović.
Previously, hibrid.info has covered another case where an old photo of Kurti with ten other people was used to allude to similar meetings, a claim which after verification turned out to be unconfirmed, as the people appearing in the image explained that it was a group of Albanian students during a trip to Denmark (see here).
Analyze:
The image showing Albin Kurti next to a woman and containing the inscription "Photo of Kurti and Serbian lover Lidija Sokolovic sometime in '90 Belgrade"is manipulated."
The image was created using artificial intelligence (AI). Analysis through the HiveModeration platform confirmed that the image has a 96.7% probability of being generated by AI and a 64.5% probability of being a Deepfake.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info rates this content as "Fraud".
Reasoning:
The “Deception” rating is given to informational content that is manipulated in terms of visual (deepfake, cheapfake), audio, or textual content to deceive the audience. This form of deception is usually used to produce false and manipulated content.