The information portal "Kosova-sot.info" published yesterday (January 6) an article titled "The well-known former minister is executed."
The title of this article does not make clear the news presented in the content. Also, this title does not clarify the country or state of origin of the news.
The news is clarified only in the content, which states that "British media report that Kim Jong-un has executed one of the people he has been closest to in recent years, the former Foreign Minister of the communist state."
Knowing that this information portal is registered in Kosovo (see here) and most of its readers are Albanian speakers (see here), such a generalizing title may misinform readers, making them assume that this event is about some former Kosovo minister.
Apart from the title, the news is not clarified even by the photograph, as only the sentence "BREAKING NEWS" is visible in it.
Link to the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
After research conducted through online search engines, hibrid.info managed to find the article published in the British media "The Sun", which was cited by the information portal "Kosova-sot.info". (see here)
Analyze:
"Kosova-sot.info" has published an article regarding the execution of the former North Korean minister, while the title does not clarify where the event 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 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.