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 AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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