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Video Reportedly Created with AI Appears to Show Trump Backing Biafra Secession
- Occurred
- Feb 18, 2025
- Published
- Feb 27, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- ElonTalks
Deployers
- Unknown
Harmed parties
- U.S.-Nigeria relations
- Nnamdi Kanu
- Indigenous People of Biafra
- General public of Nigeria
- Donald Trump
- Biafra activists
Tags
- deepfake
- impersonation
- misinformation
- disinformation
- Nigeria
- Biafra
- false attribution
- U.S.-Nigeria relations
- synthetic media
- Donald Trump
- Social media
- Hoax
- separatist movement
- celebrity voice cloning
- ElonTalks
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated synthetic media used to deceive about political support, fact-checked and debunked.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8