A viral photo showing Agyapong, Kyerematen, Cheddar meeting, ‘AI-generated’

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Claim: A Facebook post by user “Political Hazard” with the caption, “Arh, what’s happening here,” shows Kennedy Agyapong, Alan Kyerematen, and Kwame Bediako (Cheddar) together in what appears to be an official meeting.

Verdict: False. The image circulating on Facebook and WhatsApp is fake. Solomon Owusu, Director of Communications for the United Party, which Alan Kyerematen leads, told DUBAWA directly that the image is fabricated. Forensic analysis by two independent verification tools found no traceable origin for the image and flagged it as potentially AI-generated.

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A photo circulating on Facebook and WhatsApp purports to show prominent Ghanaian figures Kennedy Agyapong, Alan Kyerematen, and businessperson Kwame Bediako, popularly known as Cheddar, standing together in what appears to be a formal office setting. The image was posted by a Facebook user who goes by the name “Political Hazard” with the caption “Ah, what’s happening here.” The post had garnered over 100 reactions at the time of DUBAWA’s review. No context, date, location, or source was provided alongside the image.

That notwithstanding, the picture appeared to be hinting at a potential coalition by the three political figures who represent different interests and parties.

Given the potential of the picture to mislead, DUBAWA decided to investigate the claim.

Verification

DUBAWA submitted the image to two independent forensic verification platforms to assess whether it was authentic, AI-generated, or manipulated.

The first, ImageWhisperer (imagewhisperer.org), runs 12 separate checks on an image, covering AI detection, forensic trace scanning, metadata analysis, and a web search to establish whether the image has previously appeared online.

The Flux Detector, which specialises in identifying images produced by the Flux AI image generator, returned a score of 96%. 

A broader General AI Detector, trained across 31 different AI tools, scored 74%. Both scores point toward AI involvement, though the platform noted that heavily compressed images can sometimes produce similar readings.

On the question of manipulation, a forensic model called Sparse-ViT, which examines pixel-level noise patterns rather than how the image visually appears, flagged a suspicious area in the upper right portion of the image at 76% confidence. 

No camera metadata was found embedded in the image. While social media platforms routinely strip this information when images are uploaded and shared, its absence means there is no technical record of the device or camera that originally captured the photo. 

The image also returned no results in a web provenance search, meaning it could not be traced to any original news report, press release, or online publication.

The second tool, TruthScan (truthscan.ai), classified the image as Synthetic and AI-generated with a probability score of 97% and a confidence level of High. TruthScan is trained on millions of AI-generated images and analysis files for markers of artificial generation. A 97% score at high confidence is among the strongest indicators any detection tool can return.

Results from Truthscan

DUBAWA also reached out to the United Party (UP), the political party led by Alan Kyerematen. Solomon Owusu, the party’s Director of Communications, told DUBAWA the image is fake.

“Fake,” Owusu said.

Conclusion

The image circulating on Facebook and WhatsApp purporting to show Kennedy Agyapong, Alan Kyerematen, and Kwame Bediako together in a formal meeting is fake. Two independent forensic tools raised questions about the image’s origin, with key AI detection models flagging it at high probability scores, suspicious pixel regions identified in specific areas, no camera metadata found, and no traceable original source online. Solomon Owusu, Director of Communications for the United Progressive Party, which Alan Kyerematen leads, told DUBAWA directly that the image is fake.