Does a real video show Abdul El-Sayed and Ms. Rachel talking to kids about Israeli "colonizers"? No, that's not true: An AI detection tool concluded that the video showing the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan was generated using artificial intelligence, assigning it a 100% confidence score. The video was posted by an account that self-describes as an AI media platform, "Mostly satire, always entertaining."
The claim appeared in a post and video (archived here) by the @TBC_on_X account on X on Aug. 13, 2026. It read:
Abdul El-Sayed teaches kids about bad colonizers!
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @TBC_on_X on X.)
The video is embedded below:
Abdul El-Sayed teaches kids about bad colonizers! pic.twitter.com/LOhXNDhs40
-- TBC (@TBC_on_X) August 13, 2026
TBC
TBC stands for Trencher Broadcasting Company. Its profile on X describes itself as:
Building the future of AI media. Mostly satire, always entertaining.
The TBC website (archived here) says its vision is to be "A decentralized, community driven AI media platform curated and run by the people, for the people." It also includes these tenets:
Decentralized Media
A platform free from centralized control, ensuring true freedom of speech and expression.
Community Driven
Curated and run by the people. The community decides the content and the direction.
AI Powered
Leveraging advanced AI to curate, summarize, and deliver the most relevant news and stories.
Image analysis
Lead Stories ran the image through the Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool, which returned an aggregated score of 100%, indicating that it is likely to be AI-generated:
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
News searches
Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo News (archived here) and did not find any matching reports for the terms "Abdul El-Sayed," "Ms. Rachel," and "colonizers." Ms. Rachel, whose full name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, did contribute $3,000 to El-Sayed's political campaign on July 19, 2026, according to a Federal Election Commission filing (archived here), which may have provided the inspiration for the AI video.
