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1. Celebrity disease + trusted medical voice = ready-made scam fuel

Multiple scam watch posts describe a common template: marketers create long-form promo videos that mimic CNN-style segments, insert deepfaked or edited clips of Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Anderson Cooper, and tack on emotional footage or claims about Bruce Willis and his family to sell unproven supplements such as “Memo Clarity,” “Brain Defender,” or “IQ Blast Pro” ^{[1] [3] [6]}. The pattern is explicit: use recognisable journalists for credibility while tapping the public sympathy around Willis’s illness to lower viewers’ skepticism ^{[7] [2]}.

2. The technology: deepfakes and edited testimonials described in reporting

Investigations report AI-generated videos that replicate faces, voices and even lip movements of real broadcasters to create ostensibly authentic news segments; those reports say the visuals and audio are digitally altered to mimic real CNN broadcasts and that the videos are not genuine CNN productions ^{[2] [1]}. Sites analysing the schemes point to “deepfake representations” and “AI-generated video” as the core deceptive mechanism ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

3. What the posts say about endorsements and truth claims

Analyses assert there is no endorsement or association between the named celebrities and the products: websites pushing these pills are described as relying on “fake testimonials, phony research” and have “no endorsement from Bruce Willis, Sanjay Gupta, Anderson Cooper, or CNN” ^{[1] [2]}. The scam write-ups explicitly state that claims — for example that a honey recipe reverses Alzheimer’s or that Willis personally benefited — are fabricated ^{[2] [7]}.

4. Why Bruce Willis is targeted: the real medical context

Bruce Willis retired from acting in 2022 after a speech disorder and was later publicly associated with frontotemporal dementia; reporting from CNN and other outlets documents aphasia and a subsequent FTD diagnosis, facts scammers exploit to make their narratives more emotionally persuasive ^{[4] [5]}. Scammers appear to target older adults and caregivers who may be seeking hope or solutions for cognitive decline ^[1].

5. Multiple viewpoints in the sources: warnings vs. continuing circulation

Sources agree the videos are fake and warn consumers — they describe the videos as scams and deepfakes and advise skepticism ^{[2] [1]}. At the same time, the reporting shows these ads continue to circulate under different product names and formats, indicating that the deceptive campaigns are persistent and adaptable ^{[7] [6] [3]}.

6. What the sources do not address

Available sources do not mention specific legal actions taken against these operators, nor do they provide forensic breakdowns of who produced the deepfakes or where the companies are legally based; they also do not quote direct statements from Dr. Gupta, Anderson Cooper or Bruce Willis’s representatives on every product claim, beyond stating there is no endorsement ^{[1] [2]}. Details about any regulatory follow-up or takedown outcomes are not found in the current reporting.

7. Practical takeaways for readers

Treat videos that look like TV news segments but appear on product landing pages or social ads as suspect; independent verification matters — major networks do not publish unbranded supplement endorsements, and the analyses explicitly call these items scams and deepfakes ^{[2] [1]}. If you see claims that a single “honey recipe” or pill reverses Alzheimer’s, the sources say those claims are fabricated and marketed through manipulated content ^{[2] [3]}.

Limitations: this brief relies solely on the investigative posts and articles listed above; it summarizes their main findings and notes where they are silent, following the available reporting ^{[1] [2] [3] [7] [6] [4] [5]}.