Several Albanian-language news portals published an article yesterday (June 20) titled "Children are 'drugged' with tranquilizers in a kindergarten, parents protest."
After verifying the facts presented in the content, hibrid.info has confirmed that the title is a generalization that does not clarify in which country this event occurred.
The location of the event is only clarified in the content, which states that "Investigations into the drugging of preschool children in Taiwan have raised widespread alarm on the island..
Knowing that these portals publish articles in Albanian, and that the majority of their readers are Albanian speakers (see here, here, here and here), this may misinform readers, making them understand through the title that the "drugging" in kindergarten occurred in some Albanian-speaking country.
Links to the article published on portals such as "botapress.info", "prishtinapress.net", "rilindja.al" and "indeks.mk":
To further prove the fact that this event took place in Taiwan, hibrid.info has managed to find the article published in the British media BBC in the Asia service. (see here)
Analyze:
Based on fact-checking, it has been confirmed that the aforementioned portals have published an article regarding the "drugging" of several children in a kindergarten in Taiwan, but that the title does not clarify in which country the event occurred.
These portals, based on the followers of their Facebook pages, have the largest number of Albanian-speaking readers, therefore, not providing information about the location of the event could very easily result in misinforming readers, making them think that this event took place in an Albanian-speaking country.
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.