Description: A viral audio clip circulating on TikTok, Facebook, X, and other platforms falsely portrayed Donald Trump saying he would rename Washington, D.C. as the "District of America." The voice was confirmed to be AI-generated by digital forensics experts. It was initially posted by a now-deleted TikTok account. The clip is reported to have spread rapidly across political lines before it was debunked.
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View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown voice cloning technology developer and Unknown deepfake technology developer developed an AI system deployed by Unknown TikTok user, which harmed Donald Trump , General public , social media users and Truth.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown deepfake app , Unknown voice cloning technology , TikTok , Facebook , X (Twitter) and Social media platforms
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1007
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-03-13
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What happened: Both liberal and conservative social media accounts are spreading a supposed audio recording of President Donald Trump privately stating that he is changing the name of the nation's capital from the "District of Columbia" to …
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.