FULL SPEECH: Albania PM Claims Fake "Israeli Invasion" Story Fueled Real Tirana Protests | AC1G

📅 Sep 25, 2026 DRM News 23 MIN 12366 VIEWS 15 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS

Albania's PM Edi Rama used his UN General Assembly address to deliver a stark warning on AI-driven disinformation, revealing how a fabricated "Israeli invasion" story helped fuel real protests in Tirana and unveiling Albania's AI minister, "Diella." The speech comes as Rama's government faces months of anti-corruption protests tied to a Jared Kushner-linked resort project. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DRM News. "The Machine Discovered How to Activate Our Hatred": Albania PM's Chilling AI Warning Edi Rama: "We Should Fear Human Beings Will Become Invisible Be...

What Edi Rama said

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Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania, addressed the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2026, arguing that the greatest AI danger is not machines turning against humanity but serving malicious human actors. He described Albania's experience with the "flamingo revolution," a fabricated narrative of an Israeli invasion of the Albanian coast, which he said fueled real protests in Tirana and introduced anti-Semitic tropes into Albanian discourse. Rama detailed three layers of AI challenge: what it does instead of us, what it does to us, and who gains reach. He defended accelerating AI development, disagreed with pausing, and proposed an international compact requiring disclosure of AI-generated political content, transparency of reach, human accountability for public AI use, and a shared early warning system among democracies. He also mentioned Albania's "digital mirror" initiative to detect manipulation in real time.

Key takeaways

Albania became the first country to bring an AI instrument into government through Della, its AI minister, without transferring sovereignty to machines.
Rama claims Albania experienced a fabricated "flamingo revolution" narrative of an Israeli invasion that fueled real protests and introduced anti-Semitic tropes into public discourse.
Albania is building an AI-based "digital mirror" to identify manipulation in real time, test claims against authoritative information, and reveal coordinated patterns.
Rama calls for an international compact requiring disclosure of AI-generated political content, transparency of reach, and a shared early warning system among democracies.
Rama disagrees with those demanding a pause on AI, arguing a pause by democracies will not produce a pause by dictatorships.

Chapters

0:00AI as the greatest immediate danger
2:42Three layers of AI challenge
4:01AI should teach, not replace judgment
5:34Albania's AI minister Della
6:47The flamingo revolution and its consequences
8:52Electoral interference at individual resolution
11:04Reach as new sovereignty threat
13:44Disagreement with AI pause
15:06Albania's digital mirror initiative
16:51Call for international compact

Moderator 0:00 ↗

Excellency Edi Rama, Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania. I request protocol to escort His Excellency and invite him to address the assembly.

2 more exchanges in this transcript

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APA

Rama, E. (2026, September 25). FULL SPEECH: Albania PM Claims Fake "Israeli Invasion" Story Fueled Real Tirana Protests | AC1G [Interview transcript]. DRM News. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2958768/

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Edi Rama. "FULL SPEECH: Albania PM Claims Fake "Israeli Invasion" Story Fueled Real Tirana Protests | AC1G." DRM News, 25 Sep. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2958768/.

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  howpublished = {Interview transcript, DRM News. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {sep},
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  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
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Key Quotes (2)

“Albania experienced this directly. I'm sure you must have followed or just known the so-called flamingo revolution, a fabricated narrative of an Israeli invasion of the Albanian coast. An invasion that never occurred, was manufactured, was personalized and delivered through voices, pages, and channels citizens already trusted. One citizen received a story of national betrayal. Another received a s”

▶ 6:45 CONTROVERSIAL

“In the 20th century, sovereignity meant control over land, territorial waters, and national airspace. Today in Europe, we are running like crazy to add more and more and more from the money we don't have to protect our land and to protect our skies for a potential future war. But somehow we are forgetting that in the century we are living, it must also mean the capacity of a free society to defend”

▶ 10:00 POLICY

Mentioned in this interview

Della: Albania's worldwide known artificial intelligence minister, brought into government architecture.

Israel: Fabricated narrative of an Israeli invasion of the Albanian coast that never occurred.

Tirana: Albania's capital city where the flamingo revolution protests occurred on a Tuesday.

United States: President of the United States is right that AI cannot be stopped.

Earlier, on the same topics

“Albania is in a hybrid war. We are being assaulted. I saw it through media or through reading happening in other countries in other circumstances, but now I'm seeing it in my country. Different forces that brought in the day one when this war started, this hybrid war started, I'm not talking about t”

Jun 05, 2026 at 13:01 →

“The suspension from duty of a minister, in this case also deputy prime minister, directly responsible for leading the government in the absence of the prime minister, is another manifestation of precisely those weaknesses I mentioned above of a completely new power and of the anti-democratic reflexe”

Nov 21, 2025 at 18:07 →

“Have you ever heard of a law of the land that proclaims our houses belong to God and the guest? Well, such a law was written in medieval Albania and has since become an integral part of the Albanian way of life. It is the essence of what we call ality, a term that in English sounds like a harmonious”

Mar 03, 2025 at 1:38 →

“The answer is exactly where it was from the beginning. When 2027 is mentioned, it means that within 2027 the chapters will be closed. So I don't understand the question, what expectations do you have. The expectation is that within 2027 the chapters will be closed, and on our part, to achieve this, ”

Oct 14, 2025 at 21:06 →

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About Edi Rama

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama welcomed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Tirana during her Western Balkans tour, stating that Albania is preparing to begin closing EU accession chapters before the end of 2026 and to continue intensively with already-opened chapters the following year. He described Albania’s “ironclad will” to pursue required reforms and said that while corruption was once “the system,” the system is now fighting corruption. Rama also spoke at a strategic agenda event on EU enlargement, expressing hope that Europe would not fail the Western Balkans, and argued that political decisions on enlargement should be made early, with merit-based processes following. In his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Rama warned about the dangers of artificial intelligence, saying the greatest immediate risk is that AI will “obey the wrong human beings perfectly.” He described a fabricated narrative of an Israeli invasion of Albania’s coast, which he said fueled real protests in Tirana, and called for exposure of the sources behind covert industrial amplification of disinformation. Rama announced Albania’s choice of “acceleration, no surrender” on AI and innovation, and mentioned the country’s AI minister and a digital mirror tool to detect manipulation.

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