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  • 2022-03-28 (xsd:date)
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  • Blake Shelton 'Allegations' and CBD Gummies Page Are Misleading (en)
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  • In late March 2022, country music singer Blake Shelton appeared in online advertisements that said allegations had been confirmed against him. The ad with Shelton's picture led to an article that purported to come from The Daily Mail online tabloid that said he had endorsed Natures Only CBD Gummies. However, all of this was false and misleading. We found no evidence of any allegations being confirmed against Shelton. That part was the potentially alarming, yet false bait to get users to click the ad. Further, not only did Shelton never endorse any CBD gummies products, but the article with The Daily Mail's page design did not come from the online publication. The Daily Mail's article layout was recreated for growinghealthnews.com in order to fool users. The growinghealthnews.com website is registered on a web domain registrar in The Bahamas. There's no evidence of any affiliation between the scammy website and Mail Online or The Daily Mail. The ad with Shelton's photograph claimed: Allegations against Blake Shelton have been confirmed. We knew it was only a matter of time for the country star. After clicking the ad, it led to a page labeled Mail Online and Daily Mail Online that mentioned nothing about allegations being confirmed against Shelton. The headline read: Blake Shelton's Latest Business Venture Sparks Tension With Hollywood & Pharma Sponsors - He Fires Back Live On Air! The first part of the page looked like this: It read as follows: We previously reported on other misleading ads about allegations or celebrity death hoaxes that led to similar fake endorsements for CBD gummies. Those celebrities included Mayim Bialik, Tom Selleck (twice), and one pairing that included Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. All of the ads and articles associated with these four celebrities were false. In sum, no, Shelton did not have allegations against him confirmed, nor did Mail Online or The Daily Mail publish that he endorsed Natures Only CBD Gummies. All of this was false. (en)
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