The portal "Kosova-sot.info" yesterday (August 14) published articles with general titles, with events that occurred in other countries.
During daily monitoring, hibrid.info managed to find these articles published by this portal, in which it placed generalizing titles, as well as illustrative photographs that do not make the location of the event clear.
Knowing that the aforementioned portal is registered in Kosovo and most of its readers are Albanian speakers, with these articles it can misinform them by implying that the events took place within the country.
The titles placed in the articles published by the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
Eight injured in gunfire
Gunshots at the airport
Links to articles published on the "Kosova-sot.info" portal:
In the article titled "Eight Wounded in Gunfire," the event took place in the Old City of Jerusalem, which is only made clear in the content.
While in the other article titled "Airport shooting", the incident occurred at Canberra Airport in Australia.
Analyze:
The portal "kosova-sot.info" in publishing the above-mentioned articles seems to have intentionally put generalizing titles and photos, not making it clear that the events relate to other countries, thus leaving room for misinformation among readers. Everything becomes clear only after the reader enters the content.
After fact-checking analysis conducted by hibrid.info, these articles are assessed as "clickbait".
Reasoning:
The “Clickbait” rating is given to texts whose titles have no basis in the content of the following text. Such texts and articles aim to attract the attention of the reader or even the consumer with a sensational title by promising content that does not actually exist and are created mainly out of financial interest, that is, due to increased readability. So, this type of text is intended only to click, which can be converted into a profit for the content producer.