Facebook page “TV Prishtina" published content on Tuesday (June 2) that claimed to present the results of an internal survey of the Vetevendosje Movement (LVV), according to which this party enjoys 43.5% of the support of citizens, while PDK has 24%, LDK 21% and AAK 8%.
It was also claimed that, although these results are circulating in the public eye, the survey has not yet been officially published.
What's wrong with this content?
The publisher does not provide any evidence that this measurement was performed by LVV. Also, the image appears to have been generated through artificial intelligence.
FACTS
Hibrid.info has searched Google regarding this claim, but the results do not show it published in any media or credible source. The only publisher of this “survey” remains the website “TV Prishtina” (see here).
The “TV Prishtina” Facebook page has no address, contact or website. The only information on this page is an email, which does not match the name of the page (see here).
Also, the site, which was created in 2013, has changed its name eight times. It was initially created as “Vranjevci nuk ndehet”, then renamed “Kodra e Trimave”; “TVPrishtina”; “Nushi”; “TVPrishtina”; “KampStudio”; “Hip-Hop News, Rap Music”; and again in 2022 to “TV Prishtina”.
Hibrid.info has also used the image verification platform "Hivemoderation.com", which shows that this image was 87% generated through artificial intelligence (CHATGPT) (see photo below).
What are surveys?
A survey is a preliminary research to know a situation, opinions or attitudes about something specific. In this statistical method Results are drawn based on the study of a portion of the population, called a sample.
Based on the institute's article Pew Research (research institute for surveys and evidence-based studies), it is clarified what information should be requested about how a survey was conducted.
Therefore, the reader who comes across such content, to verify whether it is a credible survey or not, should check:
Who conducted the survey and who sponsored it?
Who was interviewed?
How was the survey conducted?
How were people selected for the survey?
When was the survey conducted?
How many people were interviewed?
Was the survey weighted? If so, how?
Do the survey questions seem neutral and fair?
Hibrid.info has recently handled content that has been falsely presented as surveys (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here).
Analyze
The claim of an internal pre-election poll by the political entity LVV with specific results for the June 7 elections is not supported by any verifiable source.
After research conducted by hibrid.info, no such publication was found in the media or credible sources, while the publisher does not provide evidence that the survey was actually conducted by the political entity mentioned. Furthermore, analysis of the image shows with high probability that it was generated through artificial intelligence.
Based on its working methodology, hibrid.info rates this content as "Unverified".
rationale
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.