A Facebook social media page published today (February 13) a photo with the caption "215 citizens poisoned, the municipality of Malisheva issues an announcement: The situation is moving towards normalization" and attached a link in the comment to click on what it says is the "full video".
After clicking on the link provided in the comment, an old article published on October 15, 2023 opens. (here)
So, the site in question published an article about the poisoning of citizens in Malisheva on October 15, which it presented as current.
Link to the article published by the "Gazeta Rich Shqip" website:
Hibrid.info has found the official announcement on Facebook from the Municipality of Malisheva made on October 15, 2023 regarding the poisoning situation in this municipality. (see here)
During internet searches, hibrid.info also found reports from local media regarding the same case of poisoning in the Municipality of Malisheva made in October last year. (see here and here)
Analyze:
Presenting an old article as current, a Facebook page has claimed the poisoning of 215 citizens in the Municipality of Malisheva.
Hibrid.info, after verifying the facts, found the Malisheva Municipality's announcement about this event and confirmed that this case occurred in October of last year.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this article as "Clickbait" and "Disinformation".
Reasoning:
“Clickbait” is considered to be informational content whose title is general and does not disclose the location of the event, context and relevance. Such texts and articles aim to attract the attention of the audience with sensational headlines with misleading consequences, which do not accurately clarify the content of the article. “Clickbait” headlines are mainly made to attract readability in the case of media publications and/or to earn from clicks in the case of commercial publications.
"Disinformation" is defined as information content that contains a "mix" of inaccurate sources or even half-truthful attributes, and that is created and/or distributed with the deliberate intention of causing harm. The motive behind the producers/distributors of disinformation content lies in achieving a political, financial, psychological or social goal.