"Investiguesi Shkrimor", an Albanian-language propaganda Facebook account, published a post yesterday (August 24) claiming that 'Florida lawmakers have announced plans to officially designate mRNA Covid vaccines as 'bioweapons' that are dangerous to human health.'
The post was also accompanied by a video taken from "CBS12", an American television station in the state of Florida - USA, in whose studio the claim made by the aforementioned account is discussed.
However, hibrid.info has found that the claim from this page is incorrect. Based on the findings, it has become clear that this is a request from some members of the Republican Party from Lee County (a place in the state of Florida) to ban these vaccines, and not from the legislators of this state, as claimed in the article.
Link to the post published by the account "Investiguesi Shkrimor":
Hibrid.info has verified and found an article from "winknews.com" that reports on the non-binding resolution on the request to ban vaccines, approved within the Executive Committee of the Lee County Republican Party, which was sent to Ron DeSantis, governor of the state of Florida. (see here)
Also, in the video accompanying the post by "The Writing Investigator", it is shown that it is a request from the Lee County Republican Party to ban vaccines in Florida.
Claims that the state of Florida will ban Covid-19 vaccines as bioweapons have been checked and refuted by foreign fact-checkers (FullFact.com, Snopes.com and Politifact.com), which was also highlighted by "Facebook" in the post published by "Investiguesi Shkrimor" as part of "Meta's" efforts to combat fake news and misinformation.
Analyze:
The Albanian-language propaganda account on Facebook, named "Investiguesi Shkrimor", has published a post claiming plans by Florida state legislators to ban vaccines in the country.
But hibrid.info, based on verification by other fact-checkers, has confirmed that this is a request to ban vaccines from the Republican Party in that district.
Therefore, based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as disinformation.
Rating:
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.