Wrote: Etrit Rexhepi
A video material is published showing a person speaking, with a caption claiming that it is a journalist, who expressed surprise at the bad words about former president Hashim Thaçi, after meeting with several Albanians from the diaspora.
it CONTENT was posted yesterday (March 2) by an account named “shqip010.” In addition to the caption, the same claim can be heard in the audio from this video.
What is the truth?
The audio heard in the video is generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The person in the video is not speaking about what is claimed.
Audio transcribed from video:
"I met some members of the Albanian diaspora from Kosovo. They immediately started talking to me about the crimes of Hashim Thaçi. I was surprised, as I expected them to talk about Serbian crimes, massacres and destruction from Serbia, but no. I asked them if they had evidence for these accusations of crimes, but they only gave me words. I had also heard some of these accusations from Serbian exponents years ago."
Through the automated search program, "InVID", hibrid.info has found this video published on Youtube.
Based on the description and what is heard, it has been confirmed that this is a Dale Hansen, a sports commentator, who talks about issues that have nothing to do with former President Thaçi.
Also, through "HiveModeration.com", a platform for identifying AI-generated content, hibrid.info has found that the audio of the video material being processed may have been created by this technology.
Meanwhile, Google search results have not shown any evidence that journalist Dale Hansen expressed a position on former President Thaçi (see here).
Analyze:
The claim that a journalist (Dale Hansen) expressed surprise at the bad words about former President Hashim Thaçi, after meeting with several Albanians from the diaspora, is untrue.
The audio of the video through which this claim was made was generated by AI, while the journalist in question has never publicly mentioned Thaçi.
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.