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ADVERTISEMENT 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 French NGO worker in her early thirties, being summoned and detained by Ibrahim Traoré, the military officer who seized power in Burkina Faso in September 2022. Unfounded claims seen by Euroverify claim Dubois was a French spy who gathered military intelligence "under the guise of