Description: Azerbaijan's Media Development Agency reported that purportedly AI-generated deepfake videos circulated on social media appearing to show statements by Azerbaijan's defense and foreign ministers (Zakir Hasanov and Jeyhun Bayramov, respectively) about the alleged downing of a Belarusian aircraft in Russian airspace. The agency reportedly denied the videos were authentic and called them an information manipulation effort aimed at misleading public opinion.
Editor Notes: Timeline note: The government of Azerbaijan published its notice of the incident on July 12, 2025. The incident ID was created March 1, 2026.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown deepfake technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Unknown disinformation actors, which harmed Zakir Hasanov , Jeyhun Bayramov , Government of Azerbaijan , Epistemic integrity and National security and intelligence stakeholders.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown deepfake technology and Social media platforms
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1391
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-07-12
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Loading...
The Media Development Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan has issued an urgent public statement warning against the spread of disinformation via social media platforms, involving fabricated video content falsely attributed to high-ranking …
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.
Seen something similar?
unreviewed
Incident Date:
2025-07-12