The information portal "Kosova-sot.info" published yesterday (March 13) an article titled "Details emerge on how 30-year-old man murdered his girlfriend."
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it turns out that the title of the article does not clarify the news and location of this event.
The news becomes clear only in the content, which states that "A serious incident has occurred in Paphos, Cyprus, where a 30-year-old man is accused of raping, drowning and throwing his partner off a cliff."
In addition to the fact that the title does not clarify the location of the event, the photograph placed in this article also does not correspond to the content, as it shows police tape with the words "CRIME SCENE DO NOT PASS" written in Albanian, which suggests that the event took place in an Albanian-speaking country.
Knowing that the information portal “Kosova-sot.info” is registered in Kosovo (see here) and most of its readers are Albanian speakers (see here), this may misinform readers that the event took place in Kosovo.
Excerpt from the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
A serious incident has occurred in Paphos, Cyprus, where a 30-year-old man is accused of raping, drowning and throwing his partner off a cliff, the newspaper "Kosova Sot Online" reports.
The crime in Cyprus occurred in the early hours of last Saturday (11.03.2023), where the 30-year-old, a resident of Paphos, called the police himself and claimed that while he was with his Ukrainian girlfriend, Lesia, 28, she fell off a cliff while trying to take a selfie.
Link to the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
To further confirm the fact that the event took place in Cyprus, hibrid.info has found the article published in several foreign media. (see here and here)
Analyze:
The title of the article published by "Kosova-sot.info" does not clarify in which country this event occurred, while the news is clarified only in the content, where it is announced that the case in question occurred in Cyprus.
This news portal operates in Kosovo and its primary readers are from Kosovo, based on the page's Facebook followers. Therefore, by not providing information about the country in question, this news could very easily misinform its readers, making them think that the event took place in Kosovo.
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info evaluates 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.