Wrote: Etrit Rexhepi
An article titled "Missing girl found dead in a bag".
This content was published today (September 9) on the Albanian-language online medium "kosova-sot.info".
What's wrong with the article?
The location of the news is only disclosed in the introduction to the article when it is stated that "A shocking event has occurred in Turkey...".
Why is this article being discussed?
The portal that published the text is registered in Kosovo (here) and has the majority of Albanian-speaking readers (here), so even the lack of clarity in the title about where the event took place may lead the audience to think that the event took place in Kosovo.
Link to the article published by "kosova-sot.info":
To confirm that the event took place in Turkey, hibrid.info researched using search engines and found articles from international media outlets that reported and confirmed what happened in the Diyarbakır province, in southeastern Turkey (see here, here and here).
Analyze:
The news about the discovery of the body of an 8-year-old girl who had been missing for 19 days is accurate. However, the title of the article and the photo do not make it clear that the news took place in Turkey.
Based on its working methodology, hibrid.info evaluates this content 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.