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Incident 10921 Report
Purported AI-Generated Video Portrays Pope Leo XIV Addressing Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso

2025-05-23

A purported 36-minute AI-generated deepfake video circulated online portraying Pope Leo XIV delivering a speech to Burkina Faso's President Ibrahim Traoré. The Vatican Press Office and Catholic broadcaster Patrick Madrid publicly confirmed the video was fabricated.

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Unknown actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1092
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Video Portrays Pope Leo XIV Addressing Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso

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Pro-Traoré information ecosystem

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1092
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Video Portrays Pope Leo XIV Addressing Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso

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Unknown voice cloning technology developer

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1092
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Video Portrays Pope Leo XIV Addressing Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso

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Unknown deepfake technology developer

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1092
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Video Portrays Pope Leo XIV Addressing Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso

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Truth

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1092
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Video Portrays Pope Leo XIV Addressing Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso

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Pope Leo XIV

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1092
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Video Portrays Pope Leo XIV Addressing Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso

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Unknown voice cloning technology

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  • Incident 1092
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Video Portrays Pope Leo XIV Addressing Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso

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Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1092
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Video Portrays Pope Leo XIV Addressing Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso

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