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  • 2018-12-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Was Kelly Clarkson Fired from 'The Voice'? (en)
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  • On 20 December 2018, a counterfeit website posing as that of US Weekly published an article reporting that singer Kelly Clarkson had been fired from the television show The Voice. This website (gainestylist.com) used the same color scheme as US Weekly and put the celebrity magazine's logo in their header in order to deceive readers into thinking they were reading a genuine report from a real news outlet: But this was no genuine news article. The fabricated, attention-grabbing story was merely a gateway to an advertisement for an over-the-counter natural supplement. The first few paragraphs of this junk news article focused on the imaginary events that supposedly led to Clarkson's firing. The remainder of the article, however, touted the benefits of a diet pill that, according to the events of this fictional universe, helped Clarkson shed some weight: Clarkson was not fired from The Voice, she did not endorse (or use) this diet pill, and US Weekly did not publish reports of either activity. This isn't the first time a bogus website has used junk news and an imaginary celebrity endorsement to sell a questionable product. We've previously covered scams claiming that Melissa McCarthy had endorsed a diet pill, that Denzel Washington, Tiger Woods, and Jamie Foxx had touted a brain supplement, and that Ellen DeGeneres was quitting her show to start a skin-care line. You can read more about these celebrity endorsement scams here. (en)
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