Several online media outlets in Kosovo published a photo of the Kosovo flag on their Facebook pages yesterday (November 6), which is seen displayed inside a building, which they say occurred after the victory of the Kosovo team, Bad News Eagles, over the number one team in the world - FaZe Clan, in the Major tournament of the computer game "CS:GO" being held in Brazil.
However, this photo was not from this event, but was taken at the "ExpoDubai" event.
This was confirmed by its creator, photographer Arben Llapashtica, who said through his Facebook account that most serious media outlets have fallen prey to this photograph and have continued to publish it without verifying it.
However, these online media have deleted the photo in question, but hibrid.info has managed to obtain them (screenshot).
Below you can find the posting of this photo from online media such as: "Paparaci", "GazetaBlic Sport", "Zëri", "RTV Dukagjini", "Tëvë" and "Front Online".
Photographer Arben Llapashtica's clarification that the photo in question does not belong to last night's event of the "Bad News Eagles" team's victory can be found here. here.
Another Facebook page named "Kosovali" has also fallen prey to this photo, which is the account of the Turkish-language information portal "Kosovali.net". (see here)
Analyze:
Several online media outlets have fallen prey to a photograph taken at the "ExpoDubai" event, while it was presented as being from last night's event after the victory of the Kosovar team, Bad News Eagles, against the number one team in the world - FaZe Clan in the computer game CS:GO.
This has been confirmed by the photographer of this photograph, Arben Llapashtica.
Hibrid.info, after conducting research, has confirmed that all these Albanian-language portals have deleted this post, but that they were secured in time in the form of a "screenshot".
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses these posts as "Unverified Content".
Reasoning:
The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.