Description: In February 2025, a video circulated on Facebook that appeared to show U.S. President Donald Trump expressing support for Biafran independence and calling for the release of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu. However, fact-checkers reportedly traced the visuals to a 2021 BBC video unrelated to Biafra; they noted signs of AI manipulation. The altered clip reportedly used tools such as ElonTalks to generate synthetic audio and video from a user-submitted script.
Editor Notes: For a similar incident, see Incident 1035.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: ElonTalks developed an AI system deployed by unknown, which harmed U.S.-Nigeria relations , Nnamdi Kanu , Indigenous People of Biafra , General public of Nigeria , Donald Trump and Biafra activists.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1051
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-02-18
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
IN SHORT: A video of US president Donald Trump saying he will liberate Biafra from Nigeria is circulating on social media. But Trump never made such a statement; the video was generated using artificial intelligence tools.
A Facebook post, …
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
