No, this video of Minister Bintou Keïta promoting a guide for high school graduates is not authentic

A video showing the Minister of National Education, Bintou Keïta, presenting a guide intended to prepare high school graduates for university has been circulating on social networks since August 4, 2026. This is actually content generated by artificial intelligence. The Ministry of National Education, Literacy, Technical Education and Vocational Training (MENA-ETFP) formally denied this video on its official Facebook page.

Verdict: FALSE, content generated by artificial intelligence

A massively viewed video

Published on August 4, 2026 by the Facebook page Guinea Campus, with 5,200 subscribers, the video shows Minister Bintou Keïta brandishing a book entitled “From Baccalaureate to University in Guinea”, alongside several other people during a press briefing. The content features the minister presenting this work as a guide intended to support new high school graduates in their transition to higher education.

On the date of our verification, August 13, 2026, nine days after it was posted online, the publication totaled 477,353 views, 14,238 likes, 69 comments and 131 shares, an audience well above the number of subscribers to the page, a sign of viral diffusion beyond its usual community.

Anomalies that betray AI-generated content

The examination of the video through optical character recognition for the texts in the images, which we carried out through Invid, reveals several characteristic elements of content produced by generative artificial intelligence.

The most revealing is on the cover of the book brandished by the minister. The displayed title, supposed to read “Your academic future begins here”, appears distorted into incoherent text: “Your University Career Begins here”. This type of typographic distortion, real words transformed into approximate sequences of letters, is a well-known signature of AI image generation tools, which still struggle to faithfully reproduce readable text inside an image.

The name of the publishing house listed at the bottom of the work reinforces this observation: “Eolritan Coinar Coilnnes” does not correspond to any existing publishing house, Guinean or French-speaking, and reads like an inconsistently generated text, rather than like a real name. These two elements, alone, are enough to establish that the image of the book, and therefore the scene as a whole, is not authentic, but synthetic content.

Nothing on official channels

No trace of the publication of such a work, nor of a press conference by the minister on this subject, appears on the institutional channels of the MENA-ETFP nor on the other government communication media consulted by our editorial staff. No Guinean media has also reported on a launch event corresponding to the scene shown in the video.

The ministry formally denies

The MENA-ETFP reacted on its official Facebook page, certified, by republishing the image taken from the video accompanied by a “FALSE” banner affixed directly to the visual. This denial publication, posted online five days before our audit, had garnered 2,133 likes, 78 comments and 18 shares at the time of our consultation.

In addition, we also contacted the page administrator via Messenger messaging. We asked him to confirm the holding of this conference. He confirms to us that the video is false, before adding: “The video in question was indeed a video produced using artificial intelligence tools as part of the communication around our product. It did not constitute a promotion carried out by Madam Minister, nor an official declaration or message from her. We do not act on behalf of the Ministry of National Education and we have not received any mandate from its services.”

Further on, the author explains to us that his intention was not to suggest a partnership, support or any official validation on the part of the Minister or the ministry. “We have not obtained official permission from the minister for this use. With hindsight, we recognize that we should have been much more careful on this point. »

Verdict: FALSE

The absence of any trace of this work or this event on official channels, the typographical anomalies present on the cover of the book shown in the video, as well as the explicit denial published by the MENA-ETFP itself converge towards the same conclusion: this video is content generated by artificial intelligence, and not a real scene involving Minister Bintou Keïta.

This article was written as part of the Citizen Fact-Check project funded by the Association of Bloggers for Active Citizenship (ABCA) and its partners.