By AFP Thailand
Publication Date: 2026-05-08 08:42:00
Myanmar’s junta announced in late April 2026 it would move Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest and released an undated picture of her flanked by two men in uniform. The deposed leader’s legal team had questioned the authenticity of the image, but claims online that AFP had determined the photo to be old are false. The posts cite a Google AI Overview, the platform’s AI-generated search results summary, which incorrectly linked the image to an unrelated debunk from February, and has since been corrected.
“This is not a recent photo,” says a Burmese-language Facebook post shared May 1, 2026. “AFP fact check has debunked it as CCTV footage from August 22, 2022.”
The attached screenshot shows an AI-generated overview of Aung San Suu Kyi’s picture.
It reads in part: “This image shows Aung San Suu Kyi, the former leader of Myanmar, during her detention in 2022. While it has recently circulated on social media as a ‘current’ photo, fact-checkers from AFP confirmed it is leaked CCTV footage from…
