{"id":972445,"date":"2026-05-20T03:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/972445\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:44:26","slug":"fact-check-jimmy-savile-banner-image-is-not-real-photo-from-london-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/972445\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Jimmy Savile Banner Image Is NOT Real Photo From London Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is a viral image of a banner about Jimmy Savile a real photo from the May 16, 2026, anti-immigration rally in London? No, that’s not true: Lead Stories didn’t find credible news organizations that published the image as part of their rally coverage. Three online AI detectors said the picture was likely generated by AI.<\/p>\n

The claim appeared in a post<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) published by the @bortinez_ account on X on May 16, 2026. The caption began:<\/p>\n

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Banner spotted at the Unite the Kingdom protest today. Beyond words \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The banner in the attached picture read:<\/p>\n

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IF JIMMY SAVILE WAS A BLACK MUSLIM NON-BINARY LESBIAN HE WOULD OF [sic] GOT AWAY WITH IT.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is what the image in the post looked like on X at the time of writing:<\/p>\n

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Image source: post by @bortinez_ on X.com.<\/p>\n

The picture spread on social media on the day of a mass anti-immigration rally<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) in London. Posts alleged that the image showed an authentic banner from that march.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Savile<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) was a British TV host. After his death decades of sexual abuse were revealed, but, contrary to the banner’s implications, he was never convicted of such crimes.<\/p>\n

Lead Stories performed multiple reverse image searches on Google, Yandex, Bing and TinEye, but did not find credible media organizations that published the image in question.<\/p>\n

There were several inconsistencies. It was unclear how a relatively big and seemingly heavy banner could be carried on a single thin pole by the person in the white hoodie.<\/p>\n

One of the banner’s top corners showed a bright yellow element connected to nothing and looking different from the banner’s design:<\/p>\n

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Image source: X.com.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, in the background, we see a man with an anatomically incorrect head:<\/p>\n

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Image source: X.com.<\/p>\n

The InVID verification plugin<\/a> said that the picture was 99% likely generated by AI:<\/p>\n

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Image source: InVID.<\/p>\n

AI or Not<\/a> concluded that the odds of the image being a product of generative AI were 95%:<\/p>\n

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Image source: AI or Not.<\/p>\n

One more detection tool, Sightengine<\/a>, ruled that the picture was 99% “likely AI-generated”:<\/p>\n

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Image source: Sightengine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is a viral image of a banner about Jimmy Savile a real photo from the May 16, 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":972446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[144768,748,393,4884,60232,134468,271176,257,16,15],"class_list":["post-972445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-anti-immigration-rally","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-image-source","tag-jimmy-savile","tag-lead-stories","tag-london","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116604847584480999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}