AFP Fact Check determined that a viral video purporting to show RSF forces burying people alive in a Sudanese mass grave was AI-generated, originally posted months earlier in a Facebook group restricted to synthetic imagery.

Visual clues such as identical hands, unnatural spacing, and a 99% AI-detection score confirmed the clip was fabricated; similar AI and miscaptioned content has repeatedly distorted coverage of Sudan’s civil war.

The case underscores how synthetic war footage can rapidly spread, inflame public opinion, and complicate efforts to distinguish real atrocities from manufactured propaganda in modern conflicts.

Agence France Presse’s (AFP) latest investigation into a viral “mass grave” clip wrongly blamed on Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is a warning to audiences worldwide: some of the most shocking “war footage” in their feeds is now being manufactured by artificial intelligence. The story fits a broader pattern in which AI-generated and recycled images repeatedly distort how conflicts are seen from afar. It also raises questions about which interested nations might look to create and promote such content.

AFP Fact Check examined a disturbing video circulating on social media, described in captions as proof that the RSF and allied militias had buried people alive in........

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