Wrote: Endrit Berisha
The account "albinkurti_kryeminister" published an image on Sunday (July 7) through which it claimed that the Facebook page "Secure America Now" had released the results of a poll about the elections in Kosovo.
What's wrong with publishing the account "albinkurti_kryeminister"?
After verification by hibrid.info, it turns out that the content is completely false. The page promoted by the TikTok account has not made any such publications related to surveys about Kosovo.
Link to the publication of the "albinkurti_kryeminister" account on TikTok:
“The latest poll from an American portal” is written above the photo of four political leaders who are expected to be candidates for prime minister in the upcoming elections. According to the alleged results, Albin Kurti of the Vetëvendosje Movement (LVV) in this poll is claimed to have received 59 percent, Bedri Hamza of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) 18 percent, Lumir Abdixhiku of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) 17 percent and Ramush Haradinaj of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) 6 percent.
The content has received over 1700 clicks so far. It has also received over 180 likes, while comments have been disabled.
Hibrid.info has researched the verified Facebook page, “Secure America Now” (see here) and found no such content for surveys related to Kosovo. This page has 3 million followers. The description of the “Secure America Now” page on Facebook states that it is “the largest national security digital platform in the nation.” Wikipedia states that “Secure America Now (SAN) is a non-profit organization with a conservative approach (see here).
Hibrid.info also used the words “recent poll from an American portal” in a search on online search engines and found no news related to the claim (see here).
There were also no results related to this claim, even when searched in online search engines with the percentage claimed in the survey (see here).
Analyze:
The account named "albinkurti_kryeminister" on TikTok has published an image through which it claimed that an "American portal" on Facebook has released results from a poll for the next prime minister in Kosovo.
After verification, Hibrid.info did not find the publication on the organization's Facebook page. Also, no news was found linking any American portal to any poll for the prime minister of Kosovo, nor any news with the alleged percentages for the candidates.
Based on its working methodology, hybrid.info rates the content as "Fraud".
Reasoning:
The “Deception” rating is given to informational content that is manipulated in terms of visual (deepfake, cheapfake), audio, or textual content to deceive the audience. This form of deception is usually used to produce false and manipulated content.