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Quick Take
An article published on a media/e-commerce website claims that Elon Musk and Kelly Clarkson are promoting gummies for weight loss. The product is Speedy Keto+ACV Gummies. We fact-checked and found the claim to be False.
The Claim
An article published on a media/e-commerce website named peacele.com claims that Tesla CEO Elon Musk and music artist Kelly Clarkson are promoting Speedy Keto+ACV Gummies.
We have attached a screenshot of the post below:
Celebrity names frequently serve as marketing tools for products. THIP MEDIA, in the past, fact-checked Martha Stewart is promoting COPD Gummies.
Fact Check
Are Elon Musk and Kelly Clarkson promoting gummies for weight loss?
No. There is no evidence that Elon Musk or Kelly Clarkson are promoting Speedy Keto+ACV Gummies. In fact, we could not find any interview online where Clarkson and Musk talk about losing weight together. Also, we could not find any evidence that this interview actually happened on any other trustworthy news website besides peacele.com. Even more interesting is that the website peacele.com does not open except for the claimed article. We found a few other websites that have reviewed and found that peacele.com is not an authentic e-commerce website.
This evidence made us do a quick Google reverse image search to find the authenticity of the claimed article. We searched for sources from where photos of Musk and Clarkson might have been taken. As a result, we found an interview with Clarkson on the show named ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ in which she is wearing the same dress as shown in the claimed article. Likewise, the picture of Musk is actually from a BusinessWire article called ‘Over 4000 Baron Funds’ Shareholders Attend 29th Annual Baron Investment Conference Featuring Elon Musk, Kirsten Lynch, Ajei Gopal, Joel Marcus’.
We further discovered the name of the renowned doctor Mehmet Oz in the mentioned article, supposedly endorsing Speedy Keto+ACV Gummies. However, in another fact-check story, we debunked how scammers misuse Dr. Oz’s name to promote a cure for prostate cancer.
We also found that there have been reports of scammers using the names and images of celebrities like Musk and Clarkson to falsely endorse weight loss products.
As we dissect the claims made by public figures, it’s important to keep in mind how such endorsements can overshadow critical health issues, including personal health struggles faced by individuals like Bruce Willis.
Can we avoid falling for such videos?
Yes. Watching out for some red flags in social media content such as the claimed post can help people avoid falling for such videos.
Here are some red flags to watch out for:
- Promises of rapid weight loss without any effort: If a product sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
- Celebrity endorsements that seem out of place: Celebrities are often paid large sums of money to endorse products, so it is unlikely that a major celebrity would be promoting a little-known weight loss product for free.
- Pressured sales tactics: Scammers often try to pressure you into buying a product immediately by claiming that it is in limited supply or that the price is about to go up. We saw a similar case in another story where scammers were trying to sell Insulux for diabetes control claiming that this supplement is running out of stock.
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