Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
Through one posting published on Facebook, it is alleged that Turkish media have reported that Serbia has recently sent over 300 soldiers to northern Kosovo, who have entered the territory with identification documents as Serbian students.
This post was published on August 2 by the page "Selam Newspaper" on Facebook.
The truth?
After online research conducted by hibrid.info, this information was not found published in any Turkish media, as claimed by the aforementioned website. Likewise, this claim was not found published by the Albanian media either.
Hibrid.info has searched through Google with the keywords in Turkish "Serbia recently sent 300 more soldiers to northern Kosovo", (Serbia recently sent more than 300 troops to northern Kosovo), but that the results do not show such information published in Turkish. (see here)
Such a claim in Albanian has only been found published by this site. (see here)
About the “Gazeta Selam” Facebook page
This page was created in 2019 and the same no address, imprint and it is not known who is behind it. In the “about” section of this page you will find only one email address.
The above-mentioned post from this page, as of the writing of this article, has managed to collect 276 reactions, 26 comments, and 14 shares. (see photo below)
Analyze:
A post published on August 2 by the "Gazeta Selam" Facebook page claims that Turkish media have reported on the sending of over 300 Serbian soldiers to northern Kosovo, who allegedly entered as students.
After verification, hibrid.info has not found any such publication in the Turkish media, as claimed. Also, such a claim has not been reported by the Albanian-language media either.
The website that published the claim does not provide transparent ownership data and its content is not based on credible sources.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "Fake News".
Reasoning:
The “Fake News” rating is given to informational content that is entirely fabricated or that contains factually incorrect claims or information. Content that is rated as fake news can be defined as having been created and distributed with the intent to misinform the public, i.e., to present a claim that is completely false as fact.