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Fox news shows hosts5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The ad linked to a post on headlined, “Trust Isn’t the Key to Business Partnerships.”īut visiting the page from the Facebook ad surfaced a bogus story slickly designed to appear as if it were from Fox News - under the byline of (actual) Fox reporter Brit Hume - with the headline, “Laura Ingraham in the Hot Seat with Big Pharma Following Latest Business Venture.” It falsely tied Ingraham to a product called “Prime Nature CBD.” Once users clicked on an ad, they were taken to dubious websites where the full-page ads were made to look like Fox stories - with barely noticeable fine print at the bottom indicating they were ads - that masked what would otherwise appear to be benign blog posts.įor instance, one Facebook ad displayed the headline, “Laura Dismissed From ‘The Ingraham Angle,'” with a photo of Laura Ingraham. In the latest blitz, the deceptive stories were surfaced to Facebook users through ads that vaguely suggested the Fox News stars were on the outs with the network. In late 2020, the professional skateboarder Tony Hawk told his social media followers to avoid a headline claiming that “Big Pharma In Outrage” over Hawk’s CBD product (he had no affiliation with the company referenced) - the same claim made in the headline about Pirro and Stanley. The use of bogus stories to misleadingly market products isn’t a new tactic. Other fact-checkers have debunked similar claims about contestants from ABC’s “Shark Tank” selling CBD products. We previously reported on another such false “Fox News” story that claimed the evangelical leader Charles Stanley was selling a line of CBD gummies. The bogus stories represent an ongoing trend. ![]() (Full disclosure: works with Facebook as a third-party fact-checking partner the platform plays no role in our editorial decisions.) Ongoing Deceptions 20: Facebook has since removed that ad, too, and said it removed the user and business account responsible for violating its policies. “Our systems get better when people report this kind of behavior in ads, by tapping the three dots in the top right corner and selecting ‘Report Ad.'”Īfter our inquiry, we found that another such ad on Facebook involving Laura Ingraham, published in July, remains active - u nderscoring the platform’s struggle to identify and block all such deceptions. “We put significant resources towards tackling ads that promote deceptive behavior, like misusing images of public figures to mislead people, but we do miss some,” the spokesperson said. We reached out to Facebook about the ads, and a spokesperson told us that the “ads violate our policies and we have removed them.” Facebook does not permit advertisers to promote such CBD products. “Fox News Cutting Ties With Sean Hannity Over Breach of Contract?”īut, as we said, the headlines are bunk, and are actually ads that wrongly associate the network’s figures with various cannabidiol, or CBD, products and, in one case, a male enhancement drug.“Big Pharma In Outrage Over Jeanine Pirro’s Latest Business Venture – She Fires Back With This!”.“Laura Ingraham in the Hot Seat with Big Pharma Following Latest Business Venture.”.A round of fictitious stories masquerading as news articles from Fox News - invoking the names and faces of prominent hosts on the channel - and other outlets have been used in recent weeks to hawk dubious products through paid Facebook advertisements.Īds on the social media platform featuring the faces of various Fox News figures have taken users to false headlines, topping deceptive full-page “stories,” such as: ![]()
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