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How fake AI videos, photos are making Captain Ibrahim Traore popular

Burkina Faso junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore [Courtesy]

If viral videos online are to be believed, R. Kelly and Pope Leo XIV agree on one thing; that Burkina Faso’s junta leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, is a remarkable head of state.

The images, however, are artificial intelligence-generated propaganda, part of what experts describe as an extensive disinformation campaign designed to bolster the “personality cult” of the West African strongman.

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