Wrote: Endrit Berisha
A TikTok post claimed to be a poll regarding the elections expected to be held in 2025.
The publication was made by the "mentor.g.me" account on TikTok on September 26.
What's wrong with the publication?
After verification by hibrid.info, it turns out that the photo was taken in 2017, from an Exit Poll for the local elections in the Municipality of Ferizaj.
According to the photograph, in first place in this alleged poll is the Democratic Party of Kosovo with 32.7 percent, the Democratic League of Kosovo is second with 30.2 percent, the Vetëvendosje Movement third with 22.9 percent, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo with 8.3 percent fourth and Nisma fifth with 2.3 percent. Above the photograph, there is also the inscription “AAK LVV” on bars three and four in the graph, as an attempt to present AAK as third and LVV as fourth.
Hibrid.info has found the same photo that was used in an article on the portal "zeri.info” on October 22, 2017. The article in question is titled “This is the party that received the most votes in Ferizaj” and the content was about an Exit-Poll for this municipality. The Exit-Poll photo also shows the logo of the medium “klankosova.tv”, which has been removed from the TikTok publication.
The TikTok post from the account "mentor.g.me" has received over 15 views so far. It has received nearly 200 likes and 130 comments.
The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, on August 16, set September 9, 2025 as the date for organizing regular parliamentary elections in Kosovo.
In recent weeks, there have been several cases where hibrid.info has encountered false content related to polls for the upcoming elections (see here, here and here).
Analyze:
An image has been published on TikTok that purports to be a poll for the elections expected to be held in Kosovo in 2025.
The account "mentor.g.me" published the image with the caption "elections 2025". However, hibrid.info has found that it is an image from an Exit Poll for the local elections in Ferizaj in 2017.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses the 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.