On April 25, gazeta Demos published an article titled: "Exclusive: VIEW | Glauk Konjufca meets with PDK's Hoxhaj in a cafe in Pristina, a few hours after Kurti made a bid for President".
The article's illustrative photo shows the Speaker of the Parliament, Glauk Konjufca, and former Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj drinking coffee.
What was noted in the article?
On the cover of the article, the photo used is created with artificial intelligence (AI). However, in the Facebook post, it is presented in a way that creates the impression of a real image of an actual meeting.
Within the article, upon clicking, another photo from the alleged meeting is displayed, while the cover image remains the AI-generated one and is marked only as an "illustrative photo."
While some other media, INCLUDING DTV, have only republished the image generated with artificial intelligence, without clearly explaining that it is an illustrative photograph and without accompanying it with real photographs from the meeting.
Also, AI-generated content verification tools like Hivemoderation suggest that the photo used on the cover was 100% AI-generated. Its visual elements match the typical characteristics of synthesized images, including unnatural details and an overall generated structure.
Analyze:
The claim that the photograph on the cover represents a real view of the Konjufca-Hoxhaj meeting is incorrect.
The image is generated with artificial intelligence and has been used illustratively, but without sufficient emphasis of this fact in some media publications and re-publications.
The lack of clarification of the origin of the image can contribute to visual disinformation, especially when such content is related to sensitive political developments.
Therefore, based on its work methodology, Hibrid.info evaluates the content as "Clickbait".
Reasoning:
“Clickbait” is considered to be informational content whose title is general and does not disclose the location of the event, context and relevance. Such texts and articles aim to attract the attention of the audience with sensational headlines with misleading consequences, which do not accurately clarify the content of the article. “Clickbait” headlines are mainly made to attract readability in the case of media publications and/or to earn from clicks in the case of commercial publications.