"Everyone who has blurry eyesight - read this. No contact lenses will be needed anymore,” reads a Burmese-language Facebook post published on March 8.
The post -- shared more than 1,300 times -- contains a screenshot of a newsreader from Myanmar state broadcaster MRTV accompanied by text that claims a new supplement can help restore eyesight "without surgery".
A screenshot of a misleading Facebook post taken on March 28, 2023
It links to an interview with a university student named "Ma Wai Khine" that was purportedly conducted by major Philippine media outlet ABS-CBN. The story carries the ABS-CBN logo at the top of the page but the URL is not from the news company.
The lengthy but poorly written report says the medical trainee has been studying in Germany and formulated a supplement called Crystalix that can allegedly counter deteriorating eyesight.
It even claims the student received a European award for the product and that major US pharmaceutical companies have offered big money for the rights to the invention.
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