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Right-wingers got thoroughly dragged for falling for an AI pic ‘of Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom crowd’, when the real thing was far smaller- 27 top takedowns

Poke Reporter. Updated May 18th, 2026

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Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march took place in London on Saturday, attracting a crowd of around 60,000, according to the Metropolitan Police, who carried out a £4.5 million operation to keep the march and counter-protest under control.

That’s about 90,000 fewer than turned up for the 2025 march.

Tommy Robinson and his supporters had a very different estimate.

The footage gives a pretty clear picture of the real attendance.

A number of right-wing accounts shared an image, supposedly showing an aerial shot of the march. An American educator posted this –

@JeremyTate41 I am not a policy wonk, but seems like normie Britts want their country back With an aerial shot of an enormous crowd - possibly created by AI, as it's low resolution and looks too uniform to be a real photo.

An American YouTuber brought Grok into the chat.

@LarryTaunton Unite the Kingdom Rally in London today. London Met Police: Only 50,000 attended the march. Grok: Estimates the number of people in this photograph alone at 200,000 - 400,000. Globalists, you’re on notice. (with the same image)

There were several problems with the image.

The real marchers were carrying Union and St George’s flags.

Shots of the crowd show that it was nowhere near as dense as that.

There’s no part of London that would match up to any of the visible landscape.

It had already appeared on Twitter several times over the past few months, with this February tweet appearing to be the first.

It was probably made with AI, but there were suggestions that it could have been a Shakira concert in Rio, or a Taylor Swift audience.

The burns came thick and fast.

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