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How Hybrid.info Mistook Authority for Evidence

Hybrid.info failed to prove Kosovo’s “Strategic Dialogue” exists, attacking journalism instead of evidence, exposing themselves as protectors of narrative, not truth, when truth proved inconvenient.

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Michael Sheppard
Sep 17, 2025
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Hybrid.info’s attempted demolition of our reporting is a performance in projection. They claim to be arbiters of truth, sworn to shield the public from disinformation, and yet when confronted with a simple, verifiable, and profoundly inconvenient fact, they collapse into the very swamp of obfuscation they were built to drain. The fact is stark: there is no Strategic Dialogue between Kosovo and the United States1. None was ever signed, no text published, no mechanism adopted, no calendar announced. It is a phantom. Our article said so plainly: “An agreement never signed cannot be suspended.” That sentence alone contains more verifiable truth than the entire scaffolding of Hybrid.info’s so-called “fact-check.”2

Their failure is not subtle, it is spectacular. Tasked with examining our claim, they did not and could not provide the one thing that would disprove it: evidence of the Strategic Dialogue’s existence. If there were such a document, a memorandum, a treaty, a joint statement that bea…

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