ALTERED: The Image of Bobi Wine at CBC Radio Does Not Contain LGBTQ Words

A photo of Bobi Wine on CBC radio with LGBTQ wording has been shared widely on the internet, with different captions that suggest that Bobi Wine is pro-LGBTQ, as seen here, here, here, and here.

**Photo**: *Bobi Wine’s image making rounds on social media.*

Research

Using Google Lens, we found an image dated August 18, 2024, that Bobi Wine shared on his social media platforms that didn’t have LGBTQ words, as seen here and here.

The claims were shared on August 19th and 20th, 2024, respectively, after Bobi Wine shared his photo.

We performed another Google Image search to determine CBC Radio’s ‘background branding’. We found images taken by other individuals at CBC Radio with a similar background to Bobi Wine without any LGBTQ wording, as seen here and here, which confirmed that the image circulating is altered.

Upon analysing the images, we noticed that the CBC logo and the accompanying text have shadows, while the LGBTQ words do not have shadows, yet they are depicted as part of the branding.

**Photo**: *The red circles highlight the differences between the claim and the image from Bobi Wine’s posts. The arrows indicate the shadows. The LGBTQ words were just fixed within the image.*

Verdict

The image was altered; the original image shared by Bobi Wine when he was at CBC radio in Toronto did not contain any LGBTQ branding, and there are no LGBTQ signs on the CBC radio ‘backdrop’ branding.

This fact-check post was produced by Debunk Media Initiative under the African Fact-Checking Incubator program, with support from PesaCheck, Code for Africa’s fact-checking initiative, and the African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA).

Reagan Kiyimba

2021 Africa Check Award-winning Fact-Checker, Media Challenge Initiative Fellow class of 2020, 2022 Code For Africa and International Fact-Checking Network Climate Change Fact-Checking Fellow, 360 Digital Sherlock, trained by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab in open-source intelligence.