The information portal "Kosova-sot.info" yesterday (April 14) published an article titled "Police found 17 immigrants packed into a truck."
After fact-checking by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the title of the article is a generalization, which does not clarify where this event took place. The news is made clear only in the content, where it is announced that the event took place in Hungary.
Knowing that this portal is registered in Kosovo (see here) and most of its readers are Albanian speakers (see here), this may misinform readers that this event took place in Kosovo.
Excerpt from the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
Hungarian police found 17 migrants crammed into a truck with Turkish license plates near the southern border, the newspaper "Kosova Sot Online" reports.
The vehicle did not have proper ventilation and the people needed urgent medical assistance. 16 of the migrants were from Egypt and one from Libya.
Link to the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
Since the news is not related to an event that occurred in Kosovo, hibrid.info has managed to find the article related to this event, published by foreign media such as "Reuters.com" and "Swissinfo.ch". (see here and here)
Analyze:
The portal "Kosova-sot.info" has published an article about an event in Hungary, where the authorities of this country had found 17 immigrants crammed into a truck with Turkish license plates. However, the title does not clarify in which country this event took place.
Knowing that the medium in question is registered in Kosovo and the majority of its audience is Albanian-speaking, the title placed on the article implies that the news item is about an event that occurred in our country.
After fact-checking based on the work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this article 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.