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# Vatican communications team says it has blocked hundreds of accounts posting AI-generated deepfakes since the start of Pope Leo XIV's pontificate
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/komanda-kommunikatsii-vatikana-soobshchaet-chto-s-nachala-pontifikata-papy-lva-xiv-zablokirovala-sotni-akkauntov-publikuiushchikh-sgenerirovannye-neirosetiami-dipfeiki/
- Published: 2025-09-26T09:34:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:36.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Society, Pop Culture, Rome

Some of the videos gather hundreds of thousands of views. Recently, for example, a fake 25-minute video of Pope Leo XIV commenting on the murder of Charlie Kirk racked up 445,000 views in a week.

The first viral deepfake of Pope Leo XIV was an address condemning colonialism and praising the leader of a coup in Burkina Faso. It gathered around a million views before the video was taken down.

Leo XIV himself has related how an acquaintance anxiously asked after his health following the appearance of a deepfake in which he supposedly collapses outside St Peter's Basilica.