The Kosova-sot.info portal published yesterday (January 1) an article titled "Serious incident: A student hangs herself in the university bathroom."
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the title of this article does not correspond to the content.
The news is clarified only in the content, which states that "A 20-year-old student hanged herself at a university in Milan, Italy.".
Knowing that the above-mentioned portal is registered in Kosovo (here) and the majority of its audience is from Kosovo (here), by placing the title, it is implied that the news is about the country where this media outlet operates, namely Kosovo.
Link to the article published on the portal "Kosova-sot.info":
To further prove the fact that this event took place in Italy, hibrid.info has found the article published in several Italian media. (see here and here)
Analyze:
The portal "Kosova-sot.info" has published an article regarding a student who committed suicide in a university bathroom.
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.