Highly respected doctors on social media are endorsing questionable medical products — but they’re deepfakes, and they’re a serious problem.
On Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and other social media platforms, highly respected doctors are endorsing a wide variety of medical products — and racking up millions of views in the process.
There’s just one problem. The videos aren’t authentic. They’re the work of scammers, who use artificial intelligence to clone the faces and voices of real, credentialed physicians without their knowledge or consent. The scammers then deploy these deepfake doctors to endorse snake-oil supplements and counterfeit weight loss pills.
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— Source: STAT News (https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/17/deepfake-doctors-scam-ama/)
