La Maison-Blanche a publié une vidéo altérée par IA faisant paraître le capitaine des Sénateurs d'Ottawa prononcer des insultes anti-canadiennes

On February 22, 2026 — the same day the United States defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime to win Olympic men's hockey gold at the Milano Cortina Winter Games — the White House's official TikTok account posted an AI-altered video of Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk, a member of the gold-medal U.S. team (CNN, 2026; NBC News, 2026). The video made it appear he said: "They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup eating f---s a lesson." The original footage was from a February 2025 press conference at the Four Nations Face-Off hockey tournament (PolitiFact, 2026).

The video received over 11 million views within days. The TikTok post included an AI-generated content disclosure label, but this did not prevent mass sharing across platforms or widespread belief that the statements were authentic.

On February 26, Tkachuk publicly denounced the video at a press conference in Ottawa: "It's clearly fake because it's not my voice and not my lips moving" (ESPN, 2026; NBC News, 2026). He emphasized that the fabricated statements did not represent his views (CNN, 2026). The incident occurred during a period of heightened U.S.–Canada tensions over trade tariffs and annexation rhetoric.