{"id":1212,"date":"2023-08-31T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2024-10-28T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T10:10:18","slug":"permbajtja-e-sponsorizuar-transmetohet-rrejshem-si-hulumtim-i-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/disinfo\/permbajtja-e-sponsorizuar-transmetohet-rrejshem-si-hulumtim-i-the-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsored content is misrepresented as an investigative article by \u201cThe Economist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Prepared by: Ridona Berisha<\/em><\/p>\n

On August 29, 2023, the public medium RTKlive.com<\/a> published an article titled \"Kosovo has Economic Growth, Surpassing Balkan Neighbors.\"<\/p>\n

This article was also published by other news portals such as: Indeksonline<\/a>, RadioGjilani<\/a>, Insajder<\/a>, Mesazhi.com<\/a>, lideri.mk<\/a>, etc. It also had extensive shares on social networks by officials from the ruling party<\/a> and their supporters, considering it a significant achievement that a prestigious medium is confirming what they have continuously stated: Kosovo has the highest economic growth in the region.<\/p>\n

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But this was not an investigative article by \"The Economist\" magazine, but an article sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Kosovo (OEK) to promote Kosovar businesses.<\/p>\n

On the official website of \"Economist Impact<\/a>\", it is explained at the top of the article that it was not written by the staff of \"The Economist\". \u201cSuch placements are clearly labeled as Advertisement, Advertisement feature, Sponsored content, Sponsor perspective, or words to that effect wherever they appear on our website or apps. Neither The Economist news and editorial team, nor Economist Impact's independent experts, have any involvement in the creation of this content.\" is written in the information section.<\/p>\n

After numerous reactions, the article has been edited<\/a> by RTK by entering the description as a sponsored article.<\/p>\n

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There were also many reactions on social media. The former director of OEK (Kosovo Chamber of Commerce), Berat Rukiqi<\/a>, explained that the advertisement in \"The Economist, is the result of a Memorandum signed by the Chamber of Commerce of Kosovo, the American Chamber of Commerce in Kosovo, the Club of Producers of Kosovo and the Project of USAID, Kosovo Compete, in December 2021\", while adding that \"the Government of the Republic of Kosovo has not agreed to pay a single cent for this promotion\".<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

*This article is published as part of the Western Balkans Regional Initiative against disinformation.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cWestern Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub: exposing malign influences through watchdog journalism.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*P\u00ebrgatiti: Ridona Berisha Me 29 gusht 2023, mediumi publik\u00a0RTKlive.com, ka publikuar nj\u00eb artikull me titull\u00a0\u201dThe Economist\u201c: Kosova me rritje ekonomike, tejkaloi fqinj\u00ebt ballkanik\u00eb\u201d. Ky artikull u publikua edhe nga portale t\u00eb tjera si:\u00a0Indeksonline,\u00a0RadioGjilani,\u00a0Insajder,\u00a0Mesazhi.com,\u00a0lideri.mk, etj. Po ashtu pati shum\u00eb shp\u00ebrndarje n\u00eb rrjetet sociale nga zyrtar\u00eb t\u00eb\u00a0partis\u00eb\u00a0n\u00eb pushtet dhe mb\u00ebshtet\u00ebs t\u00eb tyre, duke e cil\u00ebsuar si arritje […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1241,363],"tags":[11,683],"ppma_author":[28],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debunking","category-disinfo","tag-kosova","tag-the-economist"],"authors":[{"term_id":28,"user_id":18,"is_guest":0,"slug":"disinfo","display_name":"Disinfo","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sbunker_FAKE_NEWS_001-min1647858578.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sbunker_FAKE_NEWS_001-min1647858578.jpg"},"user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"Disinfo","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}