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General public of Mali

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 12831 Report
Purported AI-Enabled Pro-Russian Influence Campaign Centered on Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traoré and Disseminated Across African Media

2025-09-30

Reports describe a purported AI-enabled influence and disinformation campaign centered on Burkina Faso's junta leader Ibrahim Traoré. Dozens of purported AI-generated or AI-manipulated videos, allegedly produced by groups such as Black Rebellion and Univers Inspirant, have circulated widely across African media promoting pro-Traoré and pro-Russian narratives, with similar synthetic content appearing during regional conflicts and political events.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Wagner Group

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Univers Inspirant

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Pro-Russian influencers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Pro-Kremlin actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Pro-Ibrahim Traoré information ecosystem

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Government of Russia

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Black Rebellion

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Africa Corps

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Various generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Unknown voice cloning technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Unknown deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Truth

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Entity

Journalists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Entity

General public of Sudan

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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General public of Niger

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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General public of Burkina Faso

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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General public of African nations

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Democracy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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National security and intelligence stakeholders

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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General public of West Africa

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Entity

Various generative AI tools

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Entity

Unknown voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1283
    1 Report

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

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