In just 3 months, singer Sabri Fejzullahu was declared dead by several portals. Not once, not twice, but four times.
"It is the fourth time in three months that it is being written on portals that I have died. I'm alive, I'm in good health. I work without stopping, ”he says in a video posted by Gjirafa .
It is not the first time it is written that the singer has passed away.
"I did not understand what a terrible place we live in. Where portal journalists are the ones who define what God has not done yet. Today I was filled with various messages saying "Congratulations to Sabri". Journalists, who for a few clicks slander things that are not true. I wanted to tell you that the great Sabri Fejzullahu is very good. " - wrote Ermal Fejzullahu's wife, Ariana, some time ago.
Other celebrities have read about their deaths through portals.
“RIP Arian Çani! Earthly good evening, bitter news has shocked the world of television and beyond. Today, at the age of 50, the charismatic journalist and presenter in Albania, passed away after an incident in a strip club in Tirana, which turned out to be fatal for the journalist, "it was written in posts on social networks from memes. portals reported it as real news.
Aida Shtino, Agron Llakaj and Sinan Vllasaliu and Stresi did not escape the news of death.
Such news proves how widespread the phenomenon of "Fake News" is in the Albanian media - false news. Traditionally, people have been informed through trusted sources, journalists and the media that strictly apply the principles of journalism, but the internet - as it is known - has given access to anyone to have a portal, to write news without the slightest hassle to confirm the information. Today there is Wi-Fi even in paradise. The thirst for clicks seems scary. After the exaggeration, fake and unpublished news was the main problem according to voters in an Anabel poll on the problems of online media in Albania.