Several Facebook social media pages published articles yesterday (February 2) regarding northern Kosovo.
One article claims that the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica" has warned of an outbreak of conflict in Kosovo, while the other article talks about several masked people who opened fire in the north, chanting "He's back, Kosovo is Serbia."
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that both of these articles are old, referring to events from November (2022).
After research conducted through online search engines, hibrid.info has found articles published in real time (November 6, 2022) in online media in Kosovo.
The Facebook pages "Feja Ime", "Exlusive Albania Today" and "Shqipet" have published these old articles with the claim of presenting them as current, thus leaving room for misinformation for the reader.
Links to articles published on these pages can be found here. here, here, here, here, here and here.
Hibrid.info, after research conducted through online search engines and social media, has managed to find these articles published in real time in several online media in Kosovo, such as "GazetaExpress.com"and "Paparazzi.com".
Analyze:
Several Facebook pages published yesterday (February 2) old articles (November 2022) regarding several events in northern Kosovo, claiming to present them as current.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses these articles 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.