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Alleged Deepfake Video Depicts Former President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta Announcing 2027 Presidential Bid
A widely shared TikTok video purportedly manipulated by AI depicts former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta announcing a 2027 presidential run. Reported digital forensics and visual inconsistencies confirm the video is an AI-generated deepfake, using archival footage from his presidency with synthesized audio. The clip spread rapidly online but has reportedly been debunked by fact-checkers. Kenyatta has made no such announcement, and such a move would violate Kenya's two-term constitutional limit.
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Reported occurrence date: 2024-03-18T00:00:00.000Z
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- AI Incident Database · 2025-04-04T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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