{"id":229164,"date":"2026-04-01T01:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-no-image-does-not-show-mourners-at-funeral-of-libyas-saif-al-islam-gaddafi\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:50:24","slug":"libya-no-image-does-not-show-mourners-at-funeral-of-libyas-saif-al-islam-gaddafi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-no-image-does-not-show-mourners-at-funeral-of-libyas-saif-al-islam-gaddafi\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: No, Image Does Not Show Mourners At Funeral of Libya&#8217;s Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>No, image does not show mourners at funeral of Libya&#8217;s Saif al-Islam Gaddafi<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> An image circulating online appears to show the funeral of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s son. But it is likely AI-generated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=10164379962002457&amp;set=pcb.1384034116534103&amp;_rdc=10&amp;_rdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">image<\/a> has been circulating on Facebook since February 2026 with the claim that it shows a crowd at the funeral of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-40236808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saif al-Islam Gaddafi<\/a>, the slain son of former Libyan leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Muammar-al-Qaddafi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Muammar Gaddafi<\/a>, in Bani Walid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603310477.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, image does not show mourners at funeral of Libya&#8217;s Saif al-Islam Gaddafi IN SHORT: An image circulating online appears to show the funeral of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s son. But it is likely AI-generated. An image has been circulating on Facebook since February 2026 with the claim that it shows a crowd at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":229165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,10621,7945,8263,16371,4711,892,6649,18910,257,10837,11004,254],"class_list":["post-229164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alislam","tag-funeral","tag-gaddafi","tag-image","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-libyas","tag-mourners","tag-news","tag-saif","tag-show","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}