Wrote: Etrit Rexhepi
A video is published showing a woman physically attacking a man, with the claim that the same thing happened in Pristina.
The video with this claim was published yesterday (June 29) by several sites such as: "New Kosovo"(archived), "Estrada Music & dance"(archived) and "E-paper"(archived).
What is the truth?
Hibrid.info has found that this video is old and that the event did not happen in Pristina.
This claim was addressed due to the high number of views and high level of interactivity that these videos have generated.
Through the automated search program “InVID”, hibrid.info found the same video published on August 20, 2024, with a description in Chinese, on a channel on “Telegram” called “Malaysia Nightlife Channel” (see here).
The video lacks a description of where the incident took place, but at the end of the footage it can be seen that the person who was physically attacked is Asian.
Analyze:
The claim that a woman physically attacked a man in Pristina, as seen in the published video, is not true.
Hibrid.info has found that the video is old and was not shot in Kosovo.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "unverified" and "Disinformation".
Reasoning:
The "Unverified" rating is given to those informative contents that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which could not be verified due to certain circumstances (speed, lack of sources) during the publication of the content.
"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.