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Ethiopian Army deepfake (Feb 2025)
A five-second AI-generated video falsely claiming to show the Ethiopian army parading ballistic missiles was shared on Facebook. The video's artificial nature was revealed by unnatural faces on missile carriers, an…
- Incident date
- Feb 2025
- Target
- Ethiopian Army
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
A five-second AI-generated video falsely claiming to show the Ethiopian army parading ballistic missiles was shared on Facebook. The video's artificial nature was revealed by unnatural faces on missile carriers, an AI content detector, and tracing it back to a TikTok user who identified it as an AI video with a watermark that was removed in the Facebook post.