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Scammers are using AI-generated videos and audio to create fake endorsements from celebrities like Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil.
A viral Facebook post saying “Rachel Maddow needs” (or similar pleas attributed to Rachel Maddow) is almost certainly fake: MSNBC and the Rachel Maddow team warn that AI-generated posts and phony Face...
No credible evidence shows ever promoted “” on her TV show or on ; reporting instead documents AI-manipulated ads and social-media scams that splice or synthesize Oprah’s image and voice to fraudulent...
The short answer: no — the so-called "formula" or miracle cure being attributed to and is not real and is part of a pattern of fraudulent, AI-generated advertisements that have been debunked by multip...
Deepfake celebrity endorsements for health products are increasingly common and convincing, fueled by generative AI tools that can clone faces and voices to promote supplements, weight‑loss cures, or ...
Fact-checkers combine digital forensics, open-source verification and human reporting to determine whether a celebrity endorsement is genuine or an AI-crafted deepfake; they start by checking official...
Deepfakes and AI‑altered videos have been deployed in health product marketing both as outright scams—using fabricated endorsements from doctors and celebrities to push unproven supplements or devices...
Emerging promise for spotting consumer-focused deepfake fraud lies less in single “look-for-the-pixels” checks and more in layered, multimodal forensics that combine frequency-domain and spectral arti...
Social media scams have repackaged centuries-old “natural remedy” tropes into slick, viral pitches that falsely promise Alzheimer’s cures, using fabricated authority, emotional testimonials and emergi...
News organizations, led by CNN’s own reporting, have publicly exposed and condemned modern scams that use AI-generated likenesses of trusted public figures to sell bogus health products, running inves...