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Claim: In an interview with Senator Raffy Tulfo, physician and online personality Dr. Willie Ong, commonly known as Doc Willie, revealed a method to get rid of diabetes within seven hours.
Rating: FALSE
Why we fact-checked this: The Facebook video containing the claim was posted on January 27 by Philippine Pulse, a page with 24,000 followers. The video has 298,000 views, 90 comments, and 2,000 reactions as of writing.
In the video, Tulfo and Ong supposedly mentioned the discovery of a method to get rid of diabetes within seven hours and provide immunity against the disease. Ong allegedly discovered this method in a village in Sanqing, China.
Ong also said that diabetes is caused by a virus contracted when a person bathes in salt water and is not due to genetic factors or one’s lifestyle. Meanwhile, Tulfo supposedly said that no one in China has diabetes.
The facts: The video, which is full of false claims, is AI-manipulated. Detection tool Deepware flagged the video as deepfake.
Three of Deepware’s four deepfake detector tools found evidence of deepfake with confidence levels ranging from 87% to 98%.
A scan of the video’s audio in Resemble Detect, a deepfake audio detector, revealed that the audio is also fake. According to Resemble Detect, its model analyzes the audio with more than 90% accuracy to determine “whether the contents were created by AI.”
Diabetes is not a virus: Diabetes is a “chronic, metabolic disease” affecting the body’s production of insulin, which is essential for managing blood sugar levels. According to the Cleveland Clinic, too much glucose circulating in one’s blood causes diabetes. It listed the following as causes of the disease:
- Insulin resistance which may be due to several factors such as obesity, lack of physical activity, diet, hormonal imbalances, genetics, and certain medications
- Autoimmune disease
- Hormonal imbalances
- Pancreatic damage
- Genetic mutations
False claims on diabetes: Contrary to the deepfake’s claim that no one in China has diabetes, data from the International Diabetes Federation show that 13% of adults in China have diabetes as of 2021. This is equivalent to around 140 million of the 1.079 billion adult population in 2021.
It is also impossible to get rid of diabetes within seven hours as there is still no cure for it, according to Diabetes UK. Both Cleveland Clinic and the World Health Organization described diabetes as a “chronic” or “lifelong” disease and provided ways to manage symptoms.
Similar fact checks: Rappler has previously fact-checked a post about a supposed hypertension cure that also used a deepfake video of Tulfo and Ong.
False claims on diabetes treatment and cures include the following:
- FACT CHECK: Fake supplement claims total cure to diabetes
- FACT CHECK: Ad for diabetes ‘cure’ uses fake PGH Facebook page, FDA website
- FACT CHECK: There is no discovered cure for diabetes
- FACT CHECK: ‘Diabetes cure’ ad uses unrelated photo of World War II survivor
- FACT CHECK: Diabetes ‘cure’ ad uses stock photo, name of dead doctor
– Ailla Dela Cruz/Rappler.com
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