Wrote: Etrit Rexhepi
An article titled "" has been published.Businesses start the week without electricity, confirm that they have started procedures to leave Kosovo".
The article was published on Monday (August 19) by the online media "rtv21.tv”And“democracy.com".
What's wrong with the content?
Hibrid.info has found that the claim presented in the headline and in the article that "Businesses confirm that they have started procedures to leave Kosovo" is a generalization, as this claim is based only on the statement of one source.
The headline of the news indicates that some businesses have been left without power when it is stated that: "A large number of businesses did not start working as usual, as over the weekend KEDS, on the orders of ERO and with the presence of the Police, left about 450 businesses in Kosovo without electricity, causing major problems in their operations.. "
Further, it is said that: “KEDS announced that it has begun disconnecting electricity, which includes about 450 businesses."
The article used as sources the statement of Lulzim Rafuna, the president of the Kosovo Chamber of Commerce (KKC), a non-profit professional organization that represents the interests of member businesses, the statements of Agim Shahini and Lumnije Hajdini, the president and director of the Kosovo Business Alliance (AKB), as well as the statement of businessman Ahmet Kuçi.
However, the assertion in the article that businesses have initiated procedures to leave Kosovo is based on the statement of businessman Kuçi.
Statement by businessman Ahmet Kuçi:
"I'm already in Tirana and I have a line there. But we've also found a factory in Kukës which we're looking at taking over since we can't take all the workers to Tirana. We have more benefits in Kukës but I'll have to buy a bus to transport the workers, which is an additional cost."
Apart from this statement, the article does not confirm the same claim from other sources, in this case from Rafuna, Shahini and Hajdini.
Analyze:
The claim in the article that “Businesses that started the week without electricity have confirmed that they have begun procedures to leave Kosovo." is generalizing.
This claim is based solely on the statement of businessman Ahmet Kuçi and does not reflect the positions of all businesses or their representative organizations.
Therefore, based on the working methodology, hibrid.info assesses it as "Unverified Content".
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.