Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
Through one published post with the caption "Who is the best candidate for Prime Minister", several percentage figures are presented as well as the figures of the four candidates for Prime Minister of Kosovo.
Albin Kurti – LVV 86%, Bedri Hamza – PDK 7%, Lumir Abdixhiku – LDK 6% and Ramush Haradinaj – AAK 1%.
The photo bears the ATV television logo, and was published on November 13 on TikTok by the account "dardanis_foley".
What's wrong with this post?
After research conducted by hibrid.info, it was confirmed that the image was published by ATV television. on the official Facebook page, but it does not include the above-mentioned percentages. (here)
The post on ATV's official Facebook page was published on November 8.
So, the TikTok account took this image from ATV and then put the percentages on each candidate, presenting it as a poll.
Analyze:
An image was published with the faces of the four candidates for prime minister of Kosovo, each of whom has been given a percentage score. This image bears the caption "Who is the best candidate for prime minister?"
After fact-checking by hibrid.info, it was confirmed that this image has been tampered with. The post was originally made by ATV television on its official Facebook page, which does not include percentages.
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info evaluates this post made on TikTok as "Fraud".
Reasoning:
The “Deception” rating is given to informational content that is manipulated in terms of visual (deepfake, cheapfake), audio, or textual content to deceive the audience. This form of deception is usually used to produce false and manipulated content.