The information portal "Kosovapost.net" published a photo on its official Facebook page yesterday (March 28) showing several miners eating food.
In the description of this photo, the Larcekur portal claimed that it depicts "Trepça miners during the time of Suhoor, on the ninth horizon, depth over 800 meters."
After research conducted through online search engines, hibrid.info has confirmed that the image does not depict the Trepça miners, but that the photograph was taken somewhere, in a mine in Turkey.
Link to post the photo on Facebook from the page "Kosovapost.net":
This post has managed to garner hundreds of reactions and dozens of comments. (see photo below)
After researching through the automated online program “InVID”, hibrid.info has found that this photo has been circulating on the internet since at least 2017. The same was found on a Turkish-language Facebook page “Zonguldak Merkez Yayla İlk Öğretim okulu Mezunları” which bears the caption “Hayırlı ve bereketli iftarlar..”, which in Albanian translates to “Good and fruitful iftar..”. (see here)
Also, after researching through online search engines, this image was also found on the “Anadolu Album” Instagram account, published on May 1, 2021 with the caption “Kirli eller “Temiz Kazanc”ın işmayerdidir”, which translates into Albanian as “Dirty hands are the sign of 'clean profit'”. (see here)
In addition to these accounts, hibrid.info has also managed to find this image on the Iranian website "tabnakjavan.com" published on April 16, 2021 with the title “Miners in Turkey broke their fast at a depth of 630 meters.” (see here)
Analyze:
Based on fact-checking, hibrid.info has confirmed that the "Kosovapost.net" portal has published a photograph of miners in Turkey, claiming that it shows Trepça miners eating suhoor at a depth of over 800 meters.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this post by the "Kosovapost.net" portal 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.