AI-generated videos falsely claiming a French woman was arrested for espionage in Burkina Faso have spread virally online, triggering a wave of disinformation. The videos claim to show Claire Dubois, ...

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

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

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

Pope Leo XIV has only been at the helm of the Catholic Church for a few weeks and there is already a myriad of false ...

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

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

and fake information aimed at undermining social cohesion” in the West African country. Burkina Faso’s government and army did not immediately react to Monday’s report, which alleged that ...

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 ...

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 May 8 are available on the Vatican website, which ...