Facebook page “Gazetavip.com" has published a content with the caption: "BREAKING NEWS / There is no 30 euro supplement for children."
What's wrong with this inscription?
The caption does not clarify that it refers to the process of verifying child benefit beneficiaries and the possibility of removing those who do not meet the criteria from the scheme.
The post has a link attached to it that leads to an article published on the domain "toolsyo.com".
From the entrance to the article It is stated that "The Ministry of Finance, Labor and Transfers has launched an extensive process of verification of beneficiaries of child allowances in Kosovo, with the aim of ensuring that payments from the state budget end up only with families that meet the established criteria."
So, the text of the article refers to the verification of beneficiaries and the removal from the scheme of persons who do not meet the established criteria.
However, this is not clarified in the post's caption, which may create the wrong impression that the 30 euro supplements have been banned for all beneficiaries.
Hibrid.info verified the claim presented in the article. Through the search engine “Google”, using the keywords “verification add-ons”, an article published on July 19 in the online medium “Telegrafi.com”, which reports on the same verification process for child benefit beneficiaries.
The article "Telegrafi.com"clarifies that this is about verifying thousands of potential beneficiaries, including cases from the diaspora, and not about a general ban on child benefits."
As of the publication of this article, the above content has accumulated 100 reactions, 77 comments, and 3 shares. (see photo below).
Hibrid.info had also handled some similar content on August 18 (see here).
Analyze
Content published on Facebook may create the impression that the 30 euro child allowance has been stopped for all beneficiaries.
However, the attached article talks about the process of verifying beneficiaries and the possibility of removing only families that do not meet the criteria from the scheme.
Based on its working methodology, hibrid.info evaluates this content as "Clickbait".
rationale
“Clickbait” is considered to be informational content whose title is general and does not disclose the location of the event, context and relevance. Such texts and articles aim to attract the attention of the audience with sensational headlines with misleading consequences, which do not accurately clarify the content of the article. “Clickbait” headlines are mainly made to attract readability in the case of media publications and/or to earn from clicks in the case of commercial publications.