A Facebook page with content in Albanian published an article yesterday (February 13) titled "Rainstorm, lightning and drop in temperatures! This will be the coldest day of the week, get your sweaters ready."
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the article is about weather forecasting in Albania and that it is old.
So, the site in question published an article about the weather forecast for October 15th of last year, which it presented as current.
Link to the article published by the "Gazeta Rich Shqip" website:
Hibrid.info, during its internet searches, found the original article on the weather forecast published by the Albanian information portal "albeu.com" on October 15, 2023. (see here)
To further prove the fact that the weather forecast from the “Gazeta Rich Shqip” website is old, hibrid.info has found the published weather forecast for this week in Albania from the “Military Meteorological Service” website, which indicates that there will be low-intensity rainfall, but the publication does not state that there will be storms and lightning during the week. (see here)
Analyze:
A Facebook page, using an old article about the weather forecast in Albania, has published it as current, warning that there will be rainstorms, lightning and a drop in temperatures.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this article as "Clickbait" and "Disinformation".
Reasoning:
“Clickbait” is considered to be informational content whose title is general and does not disclose the location of the event, context and relevance. Such texts and articles aim to attract the attention of the audience with sensational headlines with misleading consequences, which do not accurately clarify the content of the article. “Clickbait” headlines are mainly made to attract readability in the case of media publications and/or to earn from clicks in the case of commercial publications.
"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.