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Health Product Scams 2024

The surge in online health product scams using deepfakes and AI-generated endorsements, and the financial and medical harm caused by these scams.

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Jan 25, 2026

How can consumers verify if a social media health endorsement is a deepfake?

—videos or audio that make real clinicians or celebrities appear to recommend products—are proliferating on and have been used to sell unproven or dangerous supplements and treatments . Consumers can ...

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...

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