Oyibo literally never has any new tricks.
This was always the game plan. Aggressively promote a hoax like "Cote d'Ivoire coup" or "AI Beyonce singing for Ibrahim Traore," and hope that people bite the bait (nobody did this time around), then come out and make a big show of "debunking" the hoax that they themselves created.
And of course mention Ibrahim Traore's name - because he was the actual target of this western disinformation operation.
It's called Strawmanning and this fellow I quoted is an CIA agent who does this rubbish for a living.
Lots of reports circulating of a coup being underway in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). The disinformation is being propagated by the same Russian-sponsored accounts who have been spreading fake news about the charlatan who is Ibrahim Traore