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Purported AI-Enabled Pro-Russian Influence Campaign Centered on Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traoré and Disseminated Across African Media

September 30, 2025

Deepfake videos allegedly generated or manipulated using AI have been reportedly disseminated, promoting pro-Ibrahim Traoré and pro-Russian narratives. These videos, produced by groups like Black Rebellion and Univers Inspirant, have circulated extensively across African media during political events and regional conflicts. Such occurrences underscore the need for trustworthy AI and effective governance to ensure safe and secure AI practices.

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Alleged deployer
wagner-group, univers-inspirant, pro-russian-influencers, pro-kremlin-actors, pro-ibrahim-traore-information-ecosystem, government-of-russia, black-rebellion, africa-corps
Alleged developer
various-generative-ai-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers, unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties
truth, journalists, general-public-of-sudan, general-public-of-niger, general-public-of-mali, general-public-of-burkina-faso, general-public-of-african-nations, general-public, epistemic-integrity, democracy, national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders, general-public-of-west-africa

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1283

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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