India, Nov. 12 -- Turkish-American streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker was confronted by security while livestreaming at Beijing's Tiananmen Square early Tuesday morning, November 11. Police in China stopped him from filming while he, along with other influencers, made their way to the daily sunset flag-raising ceremony in front of Tiananmen Gate and the portrait of Mao Zedong, the founder of Chinese Communist Party, according to Newsweek. He was joined by Twitch streamer Will Neff

Both Neff and Piker were on camera when Neff held up his phone and showed an AI-generated image of Mao in the likeness of Piker, accompanied by the Maoist slogan "Closely follow the great leader Chairman Mao forward in the revolution!"

The two were...