Facebook cheaters want to think that Elon Musk can cure diabetes
Elon Musk discovered a simple 30-second refrigerator that can turn diabetes, but the discovery has scared the pharmaceutical companies so much that they put $ 78 million on their head, forcing Tesla’s executive director to escape from the country. At least this claims that the collection of AI-generated ads on Facebook.
Facebook ads depicting Elon Musk and Fox News’ Deepfakes claims that Tesla’s CEO has found that treatment for diabetes has been distributed on the platform for weeks. The ads seem to be part of a width scam that uses DeepFakes to sell unproven additives.
Engadget has identified dozens of pages working versions of these ads since the beginning of February. Although many ads have not been a very long time, the same pages repeatedly release dozens or even hundreds of versions of the videos, all of which follow a similar format. The bigger part of the majority appearances of Elon Musk and Fox News, but there are also versions with other remarkable figures, including Oprah Winfrey, former Utah Senator Mita Romney and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The use of social media for HAWK schematic supplements is not exactly new. Checking AFP facts in detail A similar ring on Scammy Facebook ads promoting supplements that were supposed to cure high blood pressure last year. But the addition of AI-manipulated video and deep audio to Musk adds a new layer to such fraud.
Although this particular fraud has obviously remained largely undetected by Meta, the company is well aware that fraudsters often use celebrities and other public figures to lure unsuspecting users. Polish billionaire recently Won a legal battle With the company over DeepFake ads that used his likeness. Last fall, the company declared that he will return the technology to recognize persons in an attempt to fight the Celeb Bait fraud.
Musk, of course, is not unknown to the scams to present. Crypto scammers have posed for him In social media for years. However, his new position as a close lieutenant of President Donald Trump and the leader of the Government Efficiency, however, makes him an even more attractive goal for fraudsters hoping to take advantage of his new power. Several ads identified by Engadget present videos of Musk’s latest public appearances and statements. These include advertisements with audio generated by AI, covered with a video from an onstage interview this month at the Conservative Political Action Conference known as CPAC and a photo shoot in the Oval Cabinet.
“There are many different” blood sugar maintenance “, type 2 diabetes, reverse diabetes, some fraud there these days,” says Jordan Liles, a senior reporter at Snopes who has debunked some of these videos on his own YouTube channelS “This is the same type of process that you can see with other fraud as they start with advertising, they go to a long video on a website and then want to order the product. And they want you to believe everything you just saw is real. “
These ads seem to violate multiple meta policies, including its rules surrounding medical misinformation and the requirements for advertisers to disclose the use of AI-manipulated media. And many ads identified by Engadget seem to have been removed within a day or two. But many of the Facebook pages behind those ads that have names like “conscious medicine”, “your health compass” and “The Wellbeing Spot” remain active. Several pages have repeatedly launched dozens of new ads with similar content, shortly after the old ones were removed.
As ads that have been downloaded are removed from the META advertising library along with their related analysis, it is difficult to understand how many accounts they reach. But the few who remain visible offer some clues. One such advertising from a page called “Healthy Style” was active on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger for three days, according to the company’s advertising library. The advertiser paid meta between $ 300 and $ 399 for the ad, which generated 5,000 – 6000 impressions. At one point in February, the page performed 177 versions of such advertising. Another, from a page called “Hydromeduoside”, also moves for two days, generating between 10,000 and 15,000 impressions on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. It costs between $ 400 and $ 499, according to the advertising library. Both ads were removed from Meta as they “executed without the necessary refusal” for ads on social and political issues, according to an announcement in the advertising library, although they probably violate other rules and have no particular regard to politics.
Meta has removed the “Healthy Style” page after a request from Engadget. The company said in a statement that it is investigating ads and taking action on other pages. “Advertising review system is reviewing ads for violations of our policies,” said a spokesman. “This review process may include the specific components of AD, such as images, video, text and directing information, as well as AD -related target page or other destinations, among other information.”
Ads follow a similar script. They often open with Deepfakes of Fox News, discussing how Musk “exploded the Internet” recently with their discovery that Big Pharma doesn’t want to see. The ads are then cut into an AI-manipulated video of it from a podcast or other public appearance. Many ads relate to the Maha’s website, apparently referring to the “Do America Re -Again” movement.
Ads never reveal the actual “trick” to turn diabetes. In one version, Musk says that all you need is a “common fruit”. In another, Kennedy says he requires “frozen lemon”. Another suggests that all you need is Lemon and a pair of socks. Ads urges viewers to visit a connected website to find a guide “before deleted from the Internet.” Strange, the videos end with a few minutes of silence that show a fixed image of a random object such as a clock, a calculator or a blood pressure cuff.
Most of these ads are associated with websites that are trying to meet major news sites such as Fox News, CNN or Yahoo (Engadget’s mother company). These websites usually do not have obvious links to additives, but they have additional long videos with the AI ​​Manipulated Clips of Cable News Personalities. These videos, which can move up for 20 minutes, often have old audio videos generated by Barbra O’Neill AI, Australian Naturopath, which was prohibited to permanently offer health services in their homeland after claiming that cancer can be cured baking sodaS
(There is no evidence that O’Neal, who has emerged as a popular wellness in the United States in recent years, is actually related to these websites. As well as Guardian reported Last year, O’Neill was often represented by scammers using AI generated content to sell unproven funds on Facebook and Tiktok. Her official Facebook page often warns her followers of scammers who present her on Facebook. O’Neill representative did not respond to a request for comment.)
Once you reach the end of the video, a link offers a limited “deal” of a supplement called “Gluco Revive”. The supplement, which is also available by third -party sellers on Amazon and Walmart.com, does not really claim to cure any condition related to diabetes in its marketing. Instead, he suggests that he offers “blood support”, that “increases energy levels” and “maintains a healthy weight”. According to his label, he has a “own mixture” of ingredients such as berry powder and a bitter melon extract.
Previously, FDA warned users of companies that sell through treatment and supplements for counter -diabetes. “There are no nutritional supplements to treat or treat diabetes,” the agency wrote in a published warning in DecemberS “Some” all -natural “diabetes products contain hidden active ingredients found in approved prescription drugs used to treat diabetes … These products can interact in dangerous ways with other medicines.”
Although it is impossible to know how many people have been deceived by these ads, there are dozens of lists for Gluco Revive on Amazon, some of which have shown that they have had thousands of sales in the last month. Amazon reviews, where they are sold for everywhere from $ 22-70, suggest that some people may have purchased the supplements after seeing one of the ads described above. “It doesn’t work. I thought one of the company would call me what to do. Dr. O’Neal (SIC) said we could feel a change in about 5 hours. 7 days passed and I don’t feel a difference. “
“It doesn’t work and actually raised my blood sugar,” another reviewer said, noting that they had found the product via Facebook. “When I contacted Suppler (SIC), they sent me a return and address authorization number to send unused bottles … I exposed them (s) to send a priority and it returns as such an address. I called the USPS and they inform me that it was a scam and they had the 100 returns to this address (s) that they did not exist. “
Although Gluco Revive seems to be the most common supplement sold through this scam, some connected pages of Facebook ads sell similar products such as Gluco Control, which they consider “100% natural, safe and effective blood sugar management product”. The website says it is made up of high -grape seeds, grape seed extract, green tea extract and African mango extract. The website has a list of scientific reports and media approvals that look fully composed.
Liles, the Snopes reporter, who identified Gluco Revive ads on Facebook in early February and studied many similar frauds on social media, suspects that ads have been successful. “If the same product receives weeks and weeks, or months or more of advertising, it means that it is something that they see results,” he says.
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