A TikTok account named "lagraqsaqi" published a photo yesterday (July 20) showing Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti near a military helicopter.
The caption of this photo claims that for the first time, Kosovo is being photographed by helicopter.
After research conducted through online search engines, hibrid.info managed to find this photograph, which is old, taken in July 2021.
Link to the TikTok post from the "lagraqsaqi" account:
https://www.tiktok.com/@lagraqsaqi/video/7257856309582728475
After verification and research conducted by hibrid.info, no information published in online media was found that talks about equipping Kosovo, or more precisely the Kosovo Security Forces (KSF), with helicopters.
Such information related to the claim made by the above-mentioned account has not been found even on the official website of the Ministry of Defense. (see here)
After searching through Google, hibrid.info found that the photo used by the aforementioned account was taken in July 2021, at a time when Kosovo's Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, had arrived in Croatia to visit the site where a bus carrying migrants from Kosovo had an accident in the city of Slavonski Brod. (see here)
Analyze:
The TikTok account "lagraqsaqi" has published an old photo from 2021, showing Prime Minister Kurti near a military helicopter, claiming that Kosovo is being equipped with a helicopter for the first time.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this post 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.