Elon Musk discovered a simple 30-second “refrigerator trick”, which could change diabetes, but the opening scared pharmaceutical companies so much that they put $ 78 million on the head, forcing the Tesla general director to leave the country. At least this is what the Facebook collection of advertisements claims.
The Facebook advertisement depicts the deep personalities of Elon Musk and Fox News, claiming that the general director of Tesla discovered that the medicine for diabetes circulated on the platform for several weeks. Ads, it seems, are part of a wider fraud that uses Deepfakes to sell unproven additives.
Engadget has identified many pages that control versions of these advertisements since the beginning of February. Although many of the advertisements do not remain very long, the same pages repeatedly control dozens or even hundreds of versions of the video that follow a similar format. The vast majority are presented by the leading Elon Musk and Fox News, but there are also versions with other famous figures, including Oppra Winfrey, former Senator Utah Mitt Romny, as well as the Minister of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy, the younger.
The use of social networks for the fragmentary additives of the hawk is not entirely new. Checking AFP facts detailed A similar ring of fraudulent advertising on Facebook, contributing to additives, which was supposed to cure high blood pressure last year. But adding A-manipulated video and deep-sea musk sound adds a new layer to such scammers.
Although this specific fraud, by the same, has not largely discovered Meta, the company knows well that scammers often use celebrities and other public figures to attract nothing suspecting users. Polish billionaire recently Won a legal battle With the company on deep advertising, which used its likeness. Last fall, the company announced That this will return the technology of facial recognition in an attempt to fight the fraud of the “celebrity”.
Mask, of course, is not used to the fraud of imitation. Crypto -miners have betrayed him himself on social networks for years. However, his new position as a close lieutenant of President Donald Trump and the head of the “Department of Government Efficiency” makes him an even more attractive goal for fraudsters, hoping to benefit from his newly acquired power. Several advertisements identified by Engadget show the video clips of recent public performances and speeches Musk. These include advertising with generated AI sound on a video from an interview on stage this month at a conference on conservative political actions, known as CPAC, and OPP photo in the oval office.
“There are many different“ blood sugar support ”, type 2 diabetes, reverse diabetes, fraud today,” says Jordan Lils, senior reporter in Snopes, who exposed some of these videos on his own. YouTube channelThe field “This is the same process that you could see with other scammers that they start with the ads, they go to a long video on the web, and then they want you to order a product. And they want you to believe that everything that you just saw is real. ”
These announcements, apparently, violate the numerous Meta policies, including its rules related to medical misinformation and requirements for advertisers in order to reveal the use of A-manipulated media. And many of the advertisements identified by Engadget were deleted during the day or two. But many of the pages on Facebook standing behind this advertisement, which have names such as “Mindful Medicine”, “Compass of your health” and “The WellBeing Spot” remain active. Several pages repeatedly launched dozens of new advertisements with similar content shortly after the old ones were removed.
Since the advertising that are removed are removed from the META advertising library along with the analytics associated with them, it is difficult to understand how many accounts they reach. But those few who remain viewed, offer some tips. According to the library of the company’s advertising library, one of these announcements from a page called “Healthy Style” was active on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger for three days. The advertiser paid meta from 300 to 399 dollars for an announcement, which made from 5,000 to 6000 impressions. At some moment in February, 177 versions of similar advertising were instituted on the page. The other, from a page called “Gidrosedusid”, also worked within two days, creating from 10,000 to 15,000 shows on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. According to the advertising library, it cost from 400 to 499 dollars. Both ads were deleted by META because they “fled without mandatory refusals” for advertising about social and political issues, according to the notification in the AD library, despite the likelihood of violation of other rules and not having much to do with politics.
Meta deleted the “healthy style” page after a request from Engadget. The company said in its statement that it was investigating advertising and taking measures on other pages. “The advertising system considers advertising for violations of our policy,” the representative said. “This review process may include specific components of advertising, such as images, videos, text and targeting, as well as a related target page of advertising or other destination, among other information.”
Ads follow a similar scenario. They often open with deep personalities Fox News, who discuss how Musk recently “blew up the Internet” with his discovery that the “Big Pharma” does not want you to see. Then the advertisement passed to the A-manipulated video clips of it from the podcast or other public appearance. Many of the advertisements belong to the Mach website, an obvious reference to Kennedy's movement “Make America healthy”.
Ads never reveal the actual “trick” to handle diabetes. In one version, Musk says that all you need is a “common fruit”. In another, Kennedy says that it requires a “frozen lemon”. Another suggests that all you need is a “lemon and a couple of socks”. Advertising encourages the audience to visit a related website to find the leadership “before it is destroyed from the Internet.” By accident, the video ends with several minutes of silence, which shows a motionless image of an accidental object, such as a watch, a calculator or a cuff of blood pressure.
Most of these ads refer to websites that are trying to fake the main news sites, such as Fox News, CNN or Yahoo (Motherland company Engadget). These websites usually do not have obvious links to additives, but have additional long videos with A-manipulated cable news clips. These videos, which can take more than 20 minutes, often show old video clips with the Ai-generated sound Barbra O'Neill, Australian Naturopath, which is forever forbidden to provide health services after they argued that cancer can be cured With food sodaField
(There is no evidence that O'Neill, who in recent years has become a popular healing influence in the United States, is actually associated with these websites. Keeper reported Last year, O'Neill often pretended to be fraudsters using the AI content generated to sell unproven funds on Facebook and Tiktok. Her official Facebook page often warns followers about scammers who pretend to be her and end Facebook. The representative of O'Neil did not answer the request for a comment.)
As soon as you reach the end of the video, a link appears that offers a “deal” limited in time for an addition called “Gluco Revive”. An addition, which is also available from third-party sellers on Amazon and Walmart.com, actually does not claim to relate to any state associated with diabetes in its marketing. Instead, he suggests that he offers “blood support”, which “increases energy” and “supports healthy weight”. According to his label, he has a “own mixture” of ingredients, such as juniper berry and a bitter melon extract.
FDA had previously warned consumers about companies selling treatment and additives without a prescription. “There are no food additives that treat or treat diabetes,” the agency wrote in a published warning In DecemberThe field “some“ completely natural ”diabetic products contain hidden active ingredients found in approved prescription drugs used to treat diabetes … These products can interact with dangerous methods with other drugs.”
Although it is impossible to find out how many people were deceived by these ads, Amazon has dozens of lists for Gluco Revive, some of which indicate that there were thousands of sales last month. Reviews on Amazon, where it is sold for 22 to 70 dollars, suggest that some people may have purchased additives to see one of the ads described above. “It doesn't work. I thought someone from the company would call me what to do. Dr. O'Nele said that we can feel changes in about 17 hours. 7 days have passed, and I do not feel the difference. ”
“This does not work and actually raised my blood sugar level,” another reviewer reports, noting that they found the product through Facebook. “When contacting Ufler (SIC), they sent me the number of permits to return and the address for sending unused bottles … I broke them (and) sent a priority delivery, and he returns like such an address. I called the USPS, and they let me know that it was a scam, and they had a hundred -a revolution to this address (and) that they do not exist. ”
Although Gluco Revive is the most common additive sold through this fraud, some related pages from the Facebook advertisements sell similar products such as Control Gluco, which are a “100% natural, safe and effective product to manage sugar”. The web site says that it consists of a gymnological sylvester, extract of grape seeds, green tea extract and African mango extract. On the website there is a list of scientific links and approval of the media, which are apparently fully compiled.
Liles, the Snopes reporter, which determined Gluco Revive on Facebook in early February, and investigated a lot of such social networks fraud, suspects that advertising is some success. “If the same product receives weeks and weeks, or months or longer from advertising, this means that this is what they see,” he says.
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