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WIRED reporters found the ads, and one featured an AI-generated explicit video resembling a prominent US politician. The ad ran on Meta's advertising network and passed through its review processes. The app was also listed on Apple's App Store, where it had apparently slipped past review. After WIRED's inquiry, Apple pulled the app within hours. 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No AI agent is described, so agent fields and failure classes are omitted. The source header date 2026-08-18 is the article date, not a stated disclosure or occurrence date, so no event dates are recorded. No count of affected parties, records, losses or durations is stated. Incident country and industry are not stated. Judgements: root_cause mapped to guardrail (ad approval process), control C5 mapped to the ad approval process as the closest listed control, severity set to moderate because the source bounds the scope to one ad and a third party's likeness is involved, and responsible_party left out because the source does not assign it. Apple's takedown is the only remediation stated and no added controls are stated, so remediations is empty. Model, developer and harness are not stated. 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