Did rapper Kanye West share his thoughts on the situation in Poland while being interviewed in front of the country's Constitutional Court by TV Republika? No, that's not true: Neither the website of the TV station nor its YouTube account showed such a report. Two online tools found that a screenshot that appeared to show a TV broadcast contained AI-generated content. Lead Stories found no reports published by established media organizations confirming that West traveled to Poland amid the ongoing constitutional crisis.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on X by the @Chlopczykmoder account on Nov. 2, 2026:
yo wtf is kanye doing in tribunal???
The lower banner in the shared picture, which looked like a screenshot of a TV report, continued in Polish:
Kanye West przy Trybunale Konstytucyjnym.
Raper komentuje obecną sytuację w Polsce.
As translated by DeepL to English, that meant:
Kanye West at the Constitutional Court.
The rapper comments on the current situation in Poland.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @Chlopczykmoder on X.)
The picture displayed the logo of a Polish TV channel: Telewizja Republika, or TV Republika (archived here).
The "screenshot" appeared to show a scene filmed in front of the building of the country's Constitutional Court in Warsaw.
The claim went viral, as Poland faced a constitutional crisis over the appointment of judges to that institution (archived here), and the area in front of the court's building became a scene of protests (archived here).
A search across the website of the TV channel didn't show a report confirming the claim (archived here):
(Image source: TV Republika; screenshot was automatically translated to English by Chrome.)
The most recent reporting on the rapper on the channel's website concerned the cancellation of his concert scheduled for June 2026 over controversial remarks (archived here).
Lead Stories manually reviewed the content of TV Republika's channel on YouTube, but found no matches for the supposed report.
As of Nov. 3, 2026, a search across Google News Poland for Kanye West's name (archived here) didn't show any news articles about him either recently visiting Poland or making any comments on the country's situation.
A search across English-language sources indexed by Google News for the keywords "kanye west" (archived here) didn't display any reports corroborating the claim, either.
AI detection tool Hive Moderation found the picture from social media was 99.9% likely "to contain AI-generated or deepfake content":
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
Another tool, SynthID Detector, ruled that the image contained SynthID, an invisible watermark (archived here) showing the presence of generative AI:
(Image source: SynthID.)
