Summary
An AI-generated image circulated on Facebook after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s UN General Assembly address on September 23, 2026, replacing the photo of schoolchildren he held with a synthetic visual and falsely depicting him holding a pink school bag. The circulated image also contained superimposed text about the “Minab school tragedy.”
AFP reporting and published video footage show Pezeshkian did not hold a pink school bag and that the children’s photo in the circulating image did not match photos taken at the assembly; the image was flagged by the Hive detection tool and the Facebook page that first posted it labelled the picture “AI content.”