The article titled "Sad event: 5-year-old girl found murdered in the park" was published today (February 22) by the information portal "Kosova-sot.info".
After checking and verifying the facts by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the title is a generalization that does not describe the location of the event.
The news is clarified only in the content, which states that "A 5-year-old girl was found dead in a park on the outskirts of Berlin."
Considering that this information portal is registered in Kosovo (see here) and most of its readers are Albanian speakers (see here), this may misinform readers that the event occurred in our country.
Excerpt from the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
A 5-year-old girl was found dead in a park on the outskirts of Berlin, reports "Kosova Sot Online".
The girl had disappeared a few hours earlier in a park and police had begun a search to find her.
Authorities suspect that the case may be a murder and have therefore arrested a 19-year-old man as a suspect.
Link to the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
To further confirm the fact that the event took place in Berlin, hibrid.info has found the article published in several online media in Germany as "Stern.de”And“Schwarzwaelder-bote.de".
Analyze:
The information portal “Kosova-sot.info” has published an article about a 5-year-old girl who was found injured in a park in Berlin, but who later died in hospital. However, the title does not clarify where the incident took place.
This online medium is a portal that operates in Kosovo and that has a dominant number of readers from Kosovo, based on the page's followers on Facebook. Therefore, not providing information about the location of the event could very easily misinform readers, making them think that this event took place in Kosovo.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info rates this article 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.