The portal "indeksonline.net" has published an article claiming that the Minister of Health in Kosovo, Arben Vitia, has indicated whether he will be part of the race for mayor of Pristina in the upcoming local elections.
After fact-checking by hibrid.info, it turns out that the title of this article does not match the content of the text, as it states that "The Minister of Health, Arben Vitia, has not indicated whether he will enter the race for mayor of the capital, although his name has been rumored to be the candidate of the Vetëvendosje Movement."
Invited to the "Desku" show on Kohavision, Minister Vitia neither denied nor confirmed that he will run for mayor of Pristina. So, Vitia has not indicated whether or not he will be the Vetëvendosje Movement's candidate for mayor of the capital.
Link to the article published on "indeksonline.net":
https://indeksonline.net/vitia-tregon-nese-do-kandidoj-per-kryetar-te-prishtines/
During research through the "Google" search engine, hibrid.info found several other portals that published the article with this title, but based on the time of publication, it can be seen that the "indeksonline.net" portal was the first.
Links to the article published by several other portals such as "botasot.info", "demokracia.com" and "reporteri.net":
In the authentic article published by "koha.net", the headline states that "Vitia does not indicate whether he will run for mayor of Pristina."
"My entire focus and that of my team is the Ministry of Health. The health of citizens, the vaccination process going well, these are important in the coming weeks. Any shift in focus from the Ministry at these moments would lose its commitment in this difficult situation. As always, the Vetëvendosje Movement, as a democratic entity, will hold internal meetings and will announce the candidates for each municipality. This is how we have come this far. We have been working intensively on the project for Pristina for some time now. When all these phases are completed, we will make the names public," Vitia said on the "Desku" show on KTV.
Link to the authentic article published on "koha.net":
https://www.koha.net/arberi/274019/vitia-projeksionet-per-covid-19-ne-prill-ishin-te-frikshme/
Analyze:
The portal "indeksonline.net" has published this article by changing the title from the authentic one, published on "koha.net", giving a different direction to Viti's statement.
The same article with a changed title from "indeksonline" was also picked up by several other portals, which do not appear to have intended to publish the article differently from the authentic one.
Based on the working methodology, the hibrid.info team has assessed the article published by "indeksonline.net" as "clickbait".
While the same article published by other media is considered a "mistake", which seems not to have had the intention of giving a different direction to the statement of the Minister of Health, but was only taken unchanged (gross) from the portal "indeksonline.net".
Reasoning:
The assessment as "Clickbait" is given to 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 intended only to click, which can be converted into a profit for the content producer.
The "Error" rating is given to media reports in which the media editorial staff made a mistake by publishing incorrect information or broadcasting unverified news from another source, without the clear intention of misinforming the public.