A photograph circulated on X purportedly showed Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi in a hospital bed with a neck brace and was accompanied by claims he broke his neck attempting to replicate President Bola Tinubu’s cycling exercise. FactCheckHub analysed the image with multiple AI-detection tools (ZeroGPT, Is It AI, Hive Moderation) which indicated the photograph was AI-generated, and Obi’s spokesman denied any such injury or hospitalisation.
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A photograph circulated on X purportedly showed Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi in a hospital bed with a neck brace and was accompanied by claims he broke his neck attempting to replicate President Bola Tinubu’s cycling exercise. FactCheckHub analysed the image with multiple AI-detection tools (ZeroGPT, Is It AI, Hive Moderation) which indicated the photograph was AI-generated, and Obi’s spokesman denied any such injury or hospitalisation.