Original title: OFFICIAL: If you go into self-isolation starting today, your name will be announced publicly
On June 19, the portal Kurir.mk published an article titled OFFICIAL: If you go into self-isolation starting today, your name will be announced publicly. The same content with an identical title was published by the portals Javno.mk, Theworldnews.net.
This is a conscious twisting of the truth or a classic clickbait title if you wish, but the problem is that this title certainly did not appeal to those citizens who worked with employees of the Ministry of Health and we assume it created a justified feeling of discomfort.
At the press conference held on 15.06.2020, the Minister of Health Venko Filipche announced that, as an alternative legal form, a list of people who should be in self-isolation and who do not want to cooperate with epidemiologists and the Sanitary Inspectorate, will be publicly announced.
According to the announcement, the Minister of Health Venko Filipche on June 19, 2020, in a statement to the media said that due to the refusal by a certain number of citizens to receive decisions for self-isolation, their first name and last name will be made public in the coming days. This decision was made due to the fact that the citizens were not available or knowingly provided incorrect data in the survey forms.
In this case, the Minister’s statement was incorrectly conveyed in the title of the articles on the above-mentioned portals, thus misleading the public with the first impression of the title.
To make the irony even greater, the portals themselves refute the headline at the beginning of their articles where they write that: “The Minister of Health Venko Filipche announced that today or tomorrow at the latest, the names of people who do not want to accept the decisions for self-isolation will be publicly announced and there are about 450 such decisions.”
Namely, according to the Minister’s statement, the names of those who do not want to receive the decisions for self-isolation will be published, and not of those who will go to self-isolation, that is those who have received a decision.
Such and similar headlines have a single goal, and that is to mislead the public by misrepresenting public trust in state institutions.
