A photo claiming to show Malia Obama kissing a girl is not real, according to Lead Stories. Hive Moderation determined the image was 99.9% likely to be AI-generated. The claim appeared in a post by the @sa10nee account on X on Nov. 1, 2026, which read that Malia Obama was spotted sharing a kiss with a girl while walking down the streets of Los Angeles, only to look shocked after realizing someone was taking their picture. Lead Stories ran the image through the Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool, which rated it as highly likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content, with a rating of 99.9% likely. The SynthID Content Detection Tool hosted by Google detected the invisible digital watermark developed by Google DeepMind, and in this case the detection tool confirmed that the image was "made or edited" with tools from OpenAI. The @sa10nee account that posted the image is a satire account, according to its bio. Lead Stories searched Google News and Yahoo News using the search term "malia obama kiss girl" and did not find any news coverage of that or of the image in the post.