Albanian language platform "MeteoBalkan.com", which mainly reports on weather forecasts, published a post on its Facebook page on September 15 announcing the death toll from flooding in Libya.
In this post, this platform uploaded four photos, but after fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it was confirmed that one of the images does not depict the floods in Libya, but was taken in 2021 in China.
Post published by the "Meteo Balkan" page on Facebook:
After research conducted through the automated online program "InVID", hibrid.info managed to find this photograph published in an article by the Nigerian media "ntm.ng" dated July 21, 2021. (see here)
In addition to this website, the same photograph was found and published in July 2021 in the British media "Telegraph.co.uk". (see here (the 27th photo in a row)
Analyze:
The Facebook page "Meteo Balkan" reported on the floods that occurred in Libya during September, but one of the images featured in the post does not show footage of this natural disaster. The same photo was taken in July 2021 during the floods in China.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info rates this post 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.