The article titled "Monkey's Leprosy, a Citizen Dies While on Vacation" was published yesterday (August 23) by the information portal "Kosova-sot.info".
After fact-checking this article, conducted by hibrid.info, it turns out that the headline does not make the news and location of this development clear. This is only made clear in the content, which states that "a 50-year-old Italian man has died after contracting monkeypox while on vacation in Cuba."
Knowing that this portal is registered in Kosovo (see here) and most of its readers are Albanian speakers (see here), this may misinform readers that the event occurred in our country.
Link to the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
Excerpt from the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
A 50-year-old Italian man has died after contracting monkeypox while on vacation in Cuba.
The victim is Germano Mancini, commander of the carabinieri station of Scorze, municipality of the metropolitan city of Venice.
The news was announced by Havana's Ministry of Health on August 20, reporting that it was the first case of monkeypox detected in the country.
Analyze:
The title of the article published by "Kosova-sot.info" does not state in which country the person died of monkeypox. Although the content indicates where it is, the title leads readers to assume that the event took place in Kosovo.
The information portal "Kosova.info" is a portal that operates in Kosovo and that has its primary readers from Kosovo, based on the page's followers on Facebook. Therefore, by not providing information about the country in question, this news could very easily misinform its readers, making them think that the event took place in Kosovo.
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info evaluates this article as "clickbait".
Reasoning:
The “Clickbait” rating is given to texts whose titles have no basis in the content of the following text. Such texts and articles aim to attract the attention of the reader or even the consumer with a sensational title by promising content that does not actually exist and are created mainly out of financial interest, that is, due to increased readability. So, this type of text is intended only to click, which can be converted into a profit for the content producer.