Through a post published on Facebook (April 28, 29), Milan Radoićić allegedly stated that former President Hashim Thaçi and former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj promised him towers and cities.
This claim was found published on the pages of "Republika Online","Our Kosovo"and "The government we want".
What do these publications contain?
In these posts, the publishers have included a link that leads to an article published on the page "trayedit.com".
After opening this link, an article appears with a different title than the one used in the post: "Radojicic: I met with Thaçi and Haradinaj together, with everyone, not just Kurti (VIDEO)".
What's wrong with this content?
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it was confirmed that the content of the article published by the aforementioned publishers is old, while the same has now been given a false title.
Online research has revealed that the original article was published on March 5, 2019 on the portal "klankosova.tv". This article includes an interview with Radoicic given to Klan Kosova.
In the interview, he stated that he had met with Haradinaj and Thaçi, and had also seen several other people.
He added that, according to him, each of them had promised the Serbs "towers and cities" to invite them to their side, but emphasized that they could not act against the vital interests of the Serbs.
So, at no point did he state that Thaçi and Haradinaj personally promised him "towers and cities", as claimed in the Facebook posts.
Also, he did not mention Albin Kurti's name in this context, contrary to what is suggested in the title of the distributed article.
For Milan Radoicic
Screenshot of the article published by Radio Free Europe
About the website “trayedit.com”
This website lacks transparency, contact, address. So, it is not known who is behind it (see here).
Analyze
Through several Facebook posts published on April 28-29, Radoićić allegedly stated that Thaçi and Haradinaj had promised him “towers and cities.” These posts share a link from “trayedit.com” with a changed and false title.
Verification shows that the article is old (from 2019, published on "klankosova.tv") and a false title has been given to it to present it as current.
In the original interview, Radoićić had said that various leaders had made promises to Serbs in general, not to him personally. He also did not mention Kurti, as alleged in the Facebook posts.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "Disinformation".
rationale
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