The dubious portal with Albanian-language content “analiza.albaniaarticle.info” yesterday (August 21) published an article titled “Kosovo Police Shows 'Muscle': Arrests Serbia's Spies' in This City”.
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the title is fabricated, which does not match the content.
The content contains old news, published on July 7 by the information portal "lajmi.net", which relates to the Kosovo Police action in the city of Štrpce, at the time when cameras illegally placed by Serbian structures were removed, and the former mayor of the municipality, Bratislav Nikolić, was arrested as a suspect in coordinating these activities.
Link to the article published by the dubious portal "analiza.albaniaarticle.info":
The article published by this aforementioned dubious portal was also shared today (August 22) on Facebook by the page "Analiza", which has nearly 60 thousand followers. (see here)
After research conducted through online search engines, hibrid.info managed to find the article published on “lajmi.net”, which was taken from the dubious portal “analiza.albaniaarticle.info”, by changing the title. (see here)
Prosecutor Rasim Maloku also spoke about this action by the Special Unit in Shtërpcë. He said that the arrested Nikolić is accused of illegally installing these surveillance cameras, an action carried out by illegal Serbian structures.
"This action is not directly related to the illegal constructions in Brezovica, but is related to several arrested people from Brezovica, since one of them, namely the former mayor of the municipality Bratislav Nikolic, is also the coordinator of illegal structures, and these structures have managed security cameras that have monitored the movements of citizens and public institutions of the Republic of Kosovo, and this information has been forwarded to security structures in Serbia," Maloku had said to Kallxo.com. (see here)
Analyze:
The dubious portal "analiza.albaniaarticle.info" yesterday (August 21) published an old article from July regarding the Special Unit's action in Shtërpcë, where the former mayor of this municipality - Bratislav Nikolić - was arrested.
However, this dubious portal has tried to present this article as current, giving it a false title with the claim that the Kosovo Police have arrested spies from Serbia.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this article as "Disinformation".
Reasoning:
A “Disinformation” rating is given to media reporting that contains a “mix” of inaccurate sources or even half-truthful content. This rating will also address reports that have incorrect attributions or headlines that do not reflect the text in terms of information accuracy.