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Deepfakes in Health Scams

The use of deepfakes in health scams, including the creation and distribution of fake media to sell dubious supplements and pills.

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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...

Feb 6, 2026

How have deepfakes and AI-generated content been used to promote health scams involving celebrity images?

and other AI-generated media have become a central tool in a growing wave of health scams that use the faces and voices of celebrities and trusted doctors to sell bogus cures, creams, insurance and ot...

Jan 28, 2026

How do fact-checkers detect deepfake audio and video used in health-product ads?

Fact‑checkers fighting deepfake audio and video in health‑product ads combine forensic technology, provenance checks and human reporting to unmask fraud; they rely on machine‑learning detectors, speci...

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