Actor Johnny Depp did not “confirm” any brand-new legal claims were being taken care of “out of court,” nor did he ever endorse any CBD gummies products.
These rumors began in paid advertisements on Facebook in early June 2022. The ads read, “Depp confirms the latest claims out of court. The celebrity has had a rough few moments because of this.” This was misleading and false.
The paid ad on Facebook led to a page that was designed by scammers to try to trick readers into believing they were on the official Fox News website and that Depp had endorsed CBD gummies. In reality, the article was not hosted on foxnews.com, nor did Fox News have anything to do with it.
The headline for the fake Fox News article read, “Big Pharma Outraged Over Johnny Depp‘s Latest Business Venture – After He Won The Defamation Trial!” The reference to a “defamation trial” was about Depp’s mostly victorious libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, which had just ended days prior to the scammy and fake Fox News article being published online.
The fake Fox News article and other pages we found online claimed that Depp had endorsed CBD gummies under many of the following brand names: Bay Park, Clinical, Condor, Eagle Hemp, Gold Bee, Green Otter, Keoni, Liberty, Oros, PureKana, and Smilz. (In the past, we reported that, in order to promote these CBD gummies brands, fake “reviews” often flood search results on Google and Google News. The fake “...
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