An image has been published showing Lamine Yamal, a footballer for the Spanish national team, next to an older woman, who is wearing a red blouse and traditional headscarf, and next to a younger girl with light hair, wearing a white blouse and jeans.
The three are shown holding the World Cup trophy, with the caption claiming that the Spanish footballer sent the prize to his grandmother.
This content, in Albanian, was published on Tuesday (July 21) on Facebook, on pages with the names "Football Fact”And“Favorite Zone".
However, hibrid.info found that this image may have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
This image raised suspicions from the beginning due to the excessively smooth and artificial appearance of the people's skin, while it is being treated as a verification case since the use of artificial intelligence-generated or manipulated images for public figures can easily deceive the masses on social media.
Therefore, hibrid.info verified it through the detection platform “HiveModeration”. After verification through the analysis tool, the results showed that the image has a 96.7% probability of being generated by AI.
Based on the result, the tool scored a probability of 44.4% for the veo3 model.
Hibrid.info has checked the official sources of information of the Spanish player. On his Instagram account, no real similar image to the one discussed in this text was found (see here).
The image was also verified through the automated search program “InVID.” The results showed a number of publishers in different languages around the world who have distributed this image, but no evidence or fact was found that the content had previously been handled by any fact-checking organization.
Lamine Yamal was part of the Spanish national team, which was crowned winner of the 2026 World Cup after a triumph in the final against Argentina in the United States of America (USA) (see here).
He was born on 13 July 2007 in Esplugues de Llobregat, near Barcelona, to a Moroccan father and an Equatorial Guinean mother. Yamal was raised mainly by his grandmother, Fatima, in the Rocafonda neighbourhood of Mataró (see here).
Real photo of Yamal with his grandmother:
Analyze:
The claim that the image shows footballer Lamine Yamal delivering the World Cup trophy to his grandmother is false.
The content does not represent a real event, but an image generated by artificial intelligence.
Also, upon checking the footballer's official account, no photographs or real evidence were found to support this claim.
Therefore, based on the working methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "Fraud".
Reasoning:
The “Deception” rating is given to informational content that is manipulated in terms of visual (deepfake, cheapfake), audio, or textual content to deceive the audience. This form of deception is usually used to produce false and manipulated content.