No, Dr. Oz isn’t promoting a diabetes cure in ads on Facebook
By Erin Jones
In November, multiple ads on Facebook claimed Dr. Mehmet Oz, a physician and former host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” was promoting a miracle cure for diabetes that can treat the condition in as little as three days to two weeks. One of the ads also features Wolf Blitzer, host of CNN’s “The Situation Room,” while FOX News host Sean Hannity appears in another iteration of the ad.
Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 38 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, and almost one in four adults don’t know they have it, the CDC says...
“These [ads] are lip-sync deepfakes in which the mouth and lower jaw region are modified in an otherwise original video to be consistent with an AI-generated voice (or an impersonator),” said Hany Farid, Ph.D., a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research focuses on digital forensics and misinformation...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. He specializes in digital forensics.
