Instagram Promotes New AI Creation Tool With Video Of Trump Kneeling Before Satanic Demon

Meta is promoting its artificial intelligence’s new “free AI creator tools” on Instagram with a piece of content that appears to show an AI-generated video of President Donald Trump kneeling before a demon.

A screenshot of the AI-generated video, showcased in an advertisement for the tool, showed what looked like Trump shaking hands with a Satan-like figure before kneeling before it, according to a video captured on the platform that was reviewed by  The Daily Wire.

The promotion read: “Meta AI: Try free AI creation tools” and featured a “Get app” button. Meta AI launched “Vibes” in September, which the company describes as “a new feed in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai where you can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos.”

A Meta spokesman told The Daily Wire that the video in question was “user-generated content” that “has been removed from this recommendation surface as it violated our protocols for promotions.”

It is unclear how user-generated videos are selected for the promotion, nor if there are any safeguards in place to ensure content that violates “protocols for promotions” is weeded out. The Meta spokesman told The Daily Wire that the company is “taking additional steps to prevent this from happening moving forward,” but would not specify how.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Trump at the White House in September to discuss “harnessing artificial intelligence to propel the U.S. to the forefront of global innovation.” During the meeting, Zuckerberg told reporters the company is investing at least $600 billion in the United States through 2028.

The Daily Wire uploaded a screenshot of the image to the Meta AI app to ask it who appears in the ad and what is happening in the image.

The response said the image depicts a “manipulated photo of Donald Trump kneeling and adjusting his tie while interacting with a large, black horned creature, likely a satanic or demonic figure.”

Although the image captured only a screenshot of the AI-generated video, the response added that the image is “likely a satirical or humorous representation, rather than a real event.”

“The ad is from Meta AI, promoting their free AI creation tools,” the response from Meta’s AI read.

The Daily Wire asked Meta to clarify which specific protocol the imagery may have violated; whether the material was user-generated content incorporated into the promotion; whether it was deliberately selected or randomly populated; and whether Meta has systems in place to prevent protocol-violating content from appearing in this manner. The company did not provide further details.

Meta and Trump have had a tumultuous relationship over the years. The company “indefinitely” suspended the president after the January 6 Capitol riots in 2021, but Facebook’s Oversight Board reinstated his accounts in 2023, Business Insider reported.

The president accused Zuckerberg of undermining him in the 2020 election, and ahead of the 2024 election, he wrote in a new book. “We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election,” the New York Post reported.

Zuckerberg congratulated Trump on his win in 2024 and donated $1 million to his inauguration fund. The pair have had at least two meetings since the election, including Zuckerberg’s participation at the White House dinner in September.