The dubious portal with content in the Albanian language, “online.weblajme.com”, has published an article titled “Study: If you continue to send your children to school, they will become homosexuals”.
After verifying the facts, hibrid.info has confirmed that this "study" is not true, as this article was published by the website satirical American "Thebabylonbee".
From research conducted through online search engines, hibrid.info managed to find this article published on June 13 on the satirical website "Thebabylonbee".
Link to the article published on the suspicious portal "online.weblajme.com":
This article was also shared on Facebook by pages like “Albanian's joy” (over 145 thousand followers) and “Albanian Message” (over 220 thousand followers).
During research, hibrid.info found this article translated from “Thebabylonbee.com”, which was also published in June by the website “Joq-albania.com”. (see here)
To clarify the fact that the website "Thebabylonbee.com" is satirical, hibrid.info has managed to confirm it through their "About Us" section on their official website.
The description of this website states: The Babylon Bee is the best satire site in the world, completely infallible in all its claims to truth. We write satire on Christian things, political things, and everyday life. (see here)
Analyze:
The dubious portals "online.weblajme.com" and "joq-albania.com" have published a satirical article taken from the American satirical website "Thebabylonbee.com", entitled "Study: If you keep sending your children to school, they will become homosexuals."
The title of the article does not indicate that this news is satirical, meaning that there is no "study" done on this issue, thus leaving the possibility for misinformation among readers.
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info evaluates this article as "Satire".
Reasoning:
The “Satire” rating includes content that uses premeditated news that uses satire to portray reality. This is also a way of reporting that is not problematic, if the media manages to argue that it is satirical content.
The purpose of including this assessment in the methodology is to indicate this type of content in situations where it can be claimed to be a genuine media report and when it becomes potentially harmful in the event of further transmission without being able to clearly explain that it is a satirical text. So in such cases, if a text fails to clarify that it has satirical content, it may be understood as genuine and, as a result, may create a wrong opinion in the audience. However, the media that publishes this type of content cannot be on one of the negative lists solely because of the publication of this type of content.