Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
Several articles reported on the withdrawal from the market of some of the products of the well-known beverage company "Coca-Cola".
"Coca Cola is removing the product from the market, bad news for those of you who have been drinking it these days, here's what was found inside" is the inscription placed on a photograph of a bottle of Coca Cola, which was published on several Facebook pages on October 25.
The truth?
Hibrid.info has verified the articles published by these pages on Facebook and found that they state that the company Coca Cola HBC Austria has announced the withdrawal of a quantity of bottles from the market in Austria. However, because the country is not indicated in the content published on Facebook, and the publication was made by a page with content in the Albanian language, there may be room for misinformation that the event did not occur in Albanian-speaking countries.
The same photo has been published on several different Facebook pages. Hibrid.info has come across several of them. All of them link to articles on suspicious websites.tirana1.com","currentnews.info","shqip-lajme.com"and in which it is not known who makes up the editorial staff, the address, contact information, or other elements that make a page credible.
The content was published by the Facebook pages: “Short and Albanian","Hawk","Albanian Press","Reborn to live","Albanian account","This is Albania","Albanian News","Television 24 +","Albanian press".
The dubious portal "atdheulajm.com" also published a headline that did not indicate the location of the incident. On the Facebook page "Homeland News"article with the title "Coca-Cola removes product from market, here's what was found inside", was shared with the caption "Bad news for Coca-Cola consumers..."
What has the company announced?
Coca-Cola HBC Austria said the decision was a "precautionary measure". "It cannot be ruled out that a very limited number of 0.5l PET bottles contain small metal parts due to a technical error in production. We advise against consuming products that may be affected, due to the potential health risk," it said in a statement. COMMUNICATION which Coca Cola HBC published in Austria on October 23. As reported by credible international media, as "DW", it is about the withdrawal of 28 million bottles.
The risk in Albanian-speaking countries
Following the decision to recall Coca-Cola bottles, the Kosovo Food and Veterinary Agency has said that beverages imported into Kosovo are not affected by this development. “Kosovo is not involved in the incident with the presence of metals in Coca-Cola,” AUVA spokesperson Lamir Thaçi told the telegraphAs Thaçi said, Kosovo authorities have not received any notification or announcement from the European Union system that there may be suspicion that Kosovo is involved in this case.
Hibrid.info has also found the distributor of Coca Cola in Albania. On the website of "ccbs.al"No notice of recall of Coca Cola products has been found in Albania."
Even if it is searched in the online search engine "Google", no article has been published by any credible media that would confirm the recall or the risk of Coca Cola products in Albania.
Analyze:
An image of a Coca-Cola bottle with the caption "Coca-Cola" has been circulating on several pages with Albanian-language content on Facebook. "Coca Cola is removing the product from the market, bad news for those of you who have been drinking it these days, here's what was found inside."
Hibrid.info has verified the articles published by these pages and found that they indicate that the withdrawal occurred in Austria. However, by not indicating the location of the event in the Facebook publication, room has been left for misinformation that such an event could have also occurred in Albanian-speaking countries.
After research by hibrid.info until the moment of publication of the article, no confirmation has been found that Kosovo and Albania may have been affected by the product recall.
Therefore, based on the working methodology, hibrid.info evaluates this content as "Clickbait".
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.