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Jan 26, 2026
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How can consumers identify deepfake videos in online health ads?

Consumers are being targeted by increasingly convincing that impersonate doctors and public-health figures to sell unproven treatments and supplements, and a mix of visual skepticism, source verificat...

Jan 15, 2026
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How do deepfakes get created and how have public-health organizations responded to synthetic media promoting health scams?

Deepfakes are produced by advanced machine‑learning systems—principally generative adversarial networks (GANs), autoencoders and newer diffusion models—that learn from large datasets of real images, v...

Dec 30, 2025
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How have deepfake and fake‑endorsement ads been debunked in other high‑profile medical scams?

High‑profile medical deepfake scams have been unraveled through a combination of clinician whistleblowing, platform takedowns prompted by community reporting, forensic analysis by cybersecurity firms ...

Jan 20, 2026

How have deepfake videos been used in health-related scams and how are they detected?

Deepfake videos have migrated from novelty to a purposeful tool in health-related scams—used to impersonate doctors, endorse fake treatments, and pressure victims into purchases or data sharing—creati...

Jan 6, 2026

How have deepfakes and AI‑generated endorsements been used in online health product scams?

Deepfakes and AI‑generated endorsements have become a prominent tool in online health product scams, where synthetic video, audio and images of real clinicians are used to sell unproven supplements an...