Several Albanian-language media outlets have published an article titled "Strong earthquake tremors with magnitude 4.2, here was the epicenter."
Hibrid.info has verified the article and found that the title does not clarify in which country the news occurred.
The location of the event is indicated in the content of the article, which makes the title general.
Link to the article published in the media "gazeta-shqip.com" and "sot.com.al":
After research by hibrid.info, it was found that the place where the event took place is only made clear in the content, when it is stated that: "An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 on the Richter scale was recorded at 05:18 (local time) in Crete, Greece.".
Based on the “PERSONAL DATA” section on the website of these information portals, which indicates their address in Tirana (see here and here), hibrid.info has found that the general headline from these information portals leaves room for misinformation among readers that the earthquake occurred in Albania.
Hibrid.info has also found the news about today's earthquake in Greece published on the official website of the University of Athens, by the Department of Geology, which shows the earthquakes in the last two days in Greece. (see here)
Analyze:
Several Albanian-language media outlets have published an article about an earthquake in Greece, without indicating in the title where the event occurred.
The failure to clarify the location of the event in the headline by the media in question, which are written in Albanian and have a registered address in Tirana, could very easily lead to readers being misinformed that the event took place in Albania.
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.