Burkina Faso's latest TikTok star? Its president — thanks to Putin
Miraculously freed from his 31-year prison term, the American R&B singer R Kelly sits at a piano, tears in his eyes as he croons: 'Bullets fly but he don't fall, walkin' through the fire still answering the call … God protect Ibrahim Traore, protect Burkina Faso.'
In the video, images flash of Traore fighting terrorists, treating wounded soldiers and praying. The 37-year-old leader of Burkina Faso is unmistakable, rarely seen without his sidearm and red beret that makes him look like Thomas Sankara, the Marxist revolutionary and Burkinabe leader of the 1980s.
To even a barely trained eye, however, the video — which has racked up two million views on YouTube since May 3 — is fake, a creation of artificial intelligence and a good
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