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The growing realism and danger of deepfake technology, including real-time impersonation and consumer harms.
have become a commonplace tool in —ranging from outright scams that stars into weight‑loss or supplement ads to legitimate marketers experimenting with virtual endorsers and testing tools—because cele...
Multiple independent fact‑checking outlets have documented a wave of manipulated videos that falsely show celebrities and journalists endorsing “diabetes cures,” identifying deepfakes, audio splices a...
Fact‑checkers authenticate or debunk by combining forensic media analysis, source‑checking and marketplace sleuthing: they look for technical signs of manipulation, verify whether the clip comes from ...
has not endorsed LipoMax or comparable weight‑loss gummies or pills, and her representatives have publicly called such ads fabrications . Repeated reporting and consumer‑complaint aggregators show the...
Claims that is promoting a simple “honey cure” for diabetes fit a broader pattern of manipulated videos and bogus product pitches that falsely attach celebrity physicians to miracle fixes; multiple me...
Investigations by independent trackers and news outlets have exposed the techniques and distribution networks behind LipoLess-style deepfake ad campaigns, showing AI-generated celebrity and doctor end...
Detecting AI‑generated deepfake videos and audio on social media requires a layered approach: visual and audio forensic signals, machine‑learning detectors trained on synthetic versus authentic media,...
Social-media that look like are frequently fakes engineered to push purchases, subscriptions or steal payment details; consumers can spot them by checking provenance, format and pressure tactics and b...
Multiple independent fact-checks and news outlets have documented that numerous viral videos and ads showing endorsing “cures” or being attacked on-air are manipulated — often via that alter faces, li...
Social-media ">supplement ads increasingly use fake or AI‑generated celebrity images, audio and phony “news” pages to sell miracle cures, and regulators and consumer groups say these tactics are widen...
has published reporting and first-person commentary in which publicly denounces scammers using AI to create and doctored images that falsely depict him endorsing bogus health products, and Gupta has w...
Marketers and scammers assemble convincing ">fake celebrity endorsements for supplements by combining AI-generated visuals and voice cloning with social-media ad funnels that mimic legitimate commerce...
that endorses a product called Neurodyne; the footage circulated on social platforms showing Gupta hawking an Alzheimer’s “natural cure” has been identified as a and Gupta himself has publicly debunke...
The immediate public flap tying Rep. to grew out of AI-manipulated clips and viral social‑media posts, not from a real on‑air encounter — multiple fact‑checks found no evidence that Barron debated Cro...
Current deepfake-detection tools are technically capable of spotting many synthetic artefacts in lab conditions—using CNNs, frequency-domain analysis, audio-visual synchronization and multimodal fusio...
The clip circulating on Facebook is almost certainly an artificial impersonation rather than a genuine Rachel Maddow segment: reporting shows the video uses a highly accurate-looking avatar and stilte...
Scammers increasingly use stolen photos, doctored videos and AI-generated deepfakes to make it look like celebrities such as Elon Musk endorse health products, especially weight-loss supplements and m...