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Reported Doctored Video of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu Claims Naira Will Be Replaced by U.S. Dollar
- Occurred
- Aug 29, 2023
- Published
- Oct 16, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A reported viral video circulated in Nigeria in the late summer and early fall of 2023 falsely claiming that President Bola Tinubu announced plans to replace the naira with the U.S. dollar. The video, reportedly styled as a news segment from Arise News, was allegedly digitally altered using AI-generated audio and lip-sync manipulation. Arise News publicly denounced the clip as a deepfake, and no legitimate media sources corroborated the claim. The video appeared amid public anxiety over Nigeria's ongoing currency crisis.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown actors
Harmed parties
- General public of Nigeria
- Bola Tinubu
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
- Journalistic integrity
Tags
- Deepfake
- Voice cloning
- Disinformation
- Misinformation
- Nigeria
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated audio and lip-sync manipulation used to create a false news video about currency policy.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8