Several Albanian-language online media outlets operating in Kosovo have published today (January 13) an article with a title that does not correspond to the content.
The news concerns the legal proceedings against medical staff at the Lucerne psychiatric hospital, “St. Urban”, which began after a physical fight between two patients, resulting in the death of one. The incident occurred on April 14, 2017, after the 37-year-old patient from Kosovo attacked another Swiss patient, aged 85, who died from his injuries.
The news about the continuation of the legal process, about 4 years after the event, was published yesterday (January 12) in the Albanian version, by the Swiss-based media outlet "alb.info".
However, several other Albanian-language media outlets have published this news with an inflammatory headline, claiming to present the 2017 murder as a current event. So the headline talks about the murder, while the content talks about the judicial process.
Links to news published by several Kosovar media outlets:
Link to the article published by "albinfo.ch":
This article states that the lawsuit was filed against the doctors who were on duty during the night of April 14, 2017, and not the patients.
The doctors who were on duty that night are considered responsible for the murder. Thus, charges of suspected negligent homicide have been filed against the former head physician of the Lucerne psychiatric hospital, “St. Urban” and the attending physician at the time.
The investigations have been completed, the prosecutor announced on Monday, albinfo.ch reports. The two people are accused of at least contributing to the murder of the patient, as responsible persons and employees of the St. Urban Clinic.
Analyze:
Based on the fact-checking process, it turns out that the headline published by the controlled media in this process has put headlines that do not correspond to the news. So, the authentic news talks about the judicial process that followed after the murder of the patient, about 4 years ago. As a result, it turns out that the news about the murder was old. However, these media, through these headlines, wanted to present it as current news. For this reason, the article published by “gazetaexpress.com” turns out to be “clickbait”, based on the research methodology of hibrid.info.
Reasoning:
“Clickbait” are those texts whose title has 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 only intended to click, which can be converted into a profit for the content producer.