The dubious portal with content in the Albanian language "banglarreporter.com" yesterday (March 10) published an article titled "Vucic: We must impose sanctions on Kosovo and Albania as soon as possible, let them go without bread."
Hibrid.info has verified the facts in this article, which turns out to be completely fabricated. The author of this fabricated text has tried to present it as current and true.
That this article is completely fabricated has been confirmed by hibrid.info. After research conducted through online search engines and social networks, no such statement by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić was found, published in any Serbian or Albanian language media.
Article published on the dubious portal "banglarreporter.com":
Aleksander Vucic came out this morning with a statement that is not good for Albanians after he vowed to slowly start sanctions starting with wheat. He said that Kosovo and Albania, both countries, are supplied with flour and wheat by Serbia, but let this be voted on as soon as possible and let it be implemented. Let them be left without bread, while we will keep them for state reserves since the situation in the world is not that safe, said Vucic.
Link to the article published on "banglarreporter.com":
This fake news has also been shared by several Facebook pages such as "Gazeta Aktive" and "Shkurteshqip.net", which have managed to collect a large number of comments and reactions on this post. (see here and here)
Vučić announced on Tuesday that Serbia will ban the export of flour, corn, wheat and oil, but at no point did he mention imposing sanctions on Kosovo and Albania, as claimed in the title of this article. (see here and here)
Analyze:
The dubious portal "banglarreporter.com" has published an article with the false claim that Vučić said that we should impose sanctions on Kosovo and Albania so that they will be left without bread.
Hibrid.info has verified the facts in this article, and after conducting research, it has been confirmed that this news is completely fabricated. The same has not been found published in any credible media in Kosovo or Serbia.
So, the author of this article seems to have created this statement allegedly made by Vučić, in order to attract as many readers as possible. Hibrid.info has rated this article as "Fake News".
Reasoning:
The "Fake News" rating is given to media reports that are entirely the product of a medium that itself contains factually incorrect claims or information.
Content that is considered fake news can be reliably determined to have been created and distributed with the intent to misinform the public, i.e., to present a claim that is completely false as fact.