Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Emilija Redžepi posted today (September 27) a photo showing the municipality building in Sarajevo, which is illuminated with the Kosovo flag.
After verifying the facts through online search engines, hibrid.info has confirmed that this is not true and that the photo has been edited.
Link to the post published by Emilija Redžepi on her Facebook account:
After researching through the automated program "InVID", hibrid.info has confirmed that the photograph taken depicting the municipality building in Sarajevo is old.
The image of the municipal building with similar elements around it was found and published no earlier than 2019. So, the original photo does not show it illuminated with the Kosovo flag. (see here)
Hibrid.info has compared the original photo with the edited one, confirming that the image depicting the Sarajevo municipality building illuminated with the Kosovo flag is edited. (see photo comparisons below)
In addition to Emilija Redžepi, this photo was also published by the Albanian-language portal in Switzerland “Albinfo.ch”. (see here)
During research into this image, it was found that it was published on a social media channel called "Telegram" under the name "Wartime Media - Ukraine / Russia / China / Etc". (see here)
This photo has a description in English. See below translated into Albanian.
In the Vjećnica (city hall) building in??Sarajevo, support for the so-called Kosovo.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is an artificial creation and must disappear – #RSEXIT!
Analyze:
Through a distributed photograph, it was claimed that the Sarajevo municipality building was illuminated with the Kosovo flag.
After verifying the facts, hibrid.info has confirmed that the photo is edited.
The original image, which only shows the municipal building with the same surrounding elements, but without the illumination with the Kosovo flag, was found to have been published no earlier than 2019.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this image as "Unverified Content" and "Disinformation".
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.
A “Disinformation” rating is given to media reporting that contains a “mix” of inaccurate sources or even half-truthful content. This rating will also address reports that have incorrect attributions or headlines that do not reflect the text in terms of information accuracy.