A video of Pope Leo addressing media professionals has been altered to show him praising Burkina Faso’s military leader ...

AI-generated videos falsely claiming a French woman was arrested for espionage in Burkina Faso have spread virally online, ...

Since the beginning of May, a surge of music videos singing the praises of Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso's military leader, ...

Pope Leo XIV is the latest public figure targeted by peddlers of false information about Burkina Faso and its leader, Ibrahim ...

Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traoré, came to power in September 2022 following a military coup that ousted interim ...

The video is by no means the first AI-generated, fake video of the newly elected Pope Leo to make the rounds online ...

Social media has been flooded with a wave of music videos of stars like Justin Bieber, Beyoncé and R. Kelly singing the glory ...

All the speeches and messages Pope Leo XIV has given since becoming Pope on May 8 are available on the Vatican website. All ...

Video. Anti-Western disinformation is rampant in Burkina Faso and the wider Sahel, with analysts and governments claiming pro ...

The fake news was also amplified by Russian state ... content that fits within the Kremlin's disinformation playbook. Burkina Faso and neighbouring Niger and Mali in the Sahel have long been ...

The Vatican News site published the warning after a 36-minute “deep fake” —A.I.-generated—video of Pope Leo was posted on ...