Does a video montage show real scenes of courtroom verdicts and repossessions related to Somali daycare fraud in Minnesota? No, that's not true: These videos are AI-generated ragebait. They are not real videos of courtroom verdicts or repossessions. The videos originated as stand-alone shorts published by one YouTube channel, and were republished as a montage on X with a "Made with AI" disclaimer.
The montage appeared in a post (archived here) published on X by @CelticAshes on March 19, 2026. The post was captioned:
They operated fake daycare and learning centers in Minnesota, fraudulently billing child nutrition programs like Feeding Our Future for about $250 million in meals and services for children who largely didn't exist.
The stolen money was then laundered through kickbacks and bribes and spent on luxury purchases instead of providing real care.
Now taxpayers will be footing the bill while they serve time in jail. Why haven't these foreign nationals been deported?
This is a screenshot from the montage:
(Image source: post by @CelticAshes on X.)
The scope of this fact check is not to verify or list specific fraud schemes in Minnesota; it only confirms the video is AI-generated.
The X post has a disclaimer visible under the video which reads, "Made with AI." The self-disclosure labeling system rolled out by the X platform is rather new -- The Verge reported about it on Feb. 23, 2026 (archived here).
The 59-second montage contains clips from four different videos. The first shows a partial watermark from the @judged4life TikTok account (archived here). There is also a @judged4life YouTube account (archived here). Neither account includes an AI disclaimer in its description or on individual videos. The four clips included in the montage on X were all visible in the thumbnails of the YouTube channel's shorts. Two shorts (here and here) show a female character portrayed as a Somali defendant objecting to a judge's ruling (archived here and here). Another (archived here) shows a female Somali character arguing with someone while in the background a green Lamborghini is loaded on a rollback tow truck. The final video clip (archived here) shows another character arguing with officers at what appears to be airport customs or security check with a suitcase full of cash.
Separately, the Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool concluded the initial video of the montage was 100% "likely to be AI-generated":
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
