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Eddie McGuire objects to Facebook fake news

Eddie sees red over a phony erectile dysfunction story linking him to Dr. Phil.

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Eddie McGuire is vowing plans to sue Facebook over a fake news article that claimed he had partnered with US talk show host Dr. Phil to create a product called “TryVexan”.

“I’ve tried Viagra, I’ve tried Red Ginseng, I’ve tried Cialis. TryVexan blows them all away,” the fake article attributes to him.

“I am so confident in the product Dr. Phil and I have created that I am offering free samples to our viewers,” he reportedly declares.

But McGuire is fuming over the ad.

“My legal advisers today tell me it’s some company out of Panama via Los Angeles, and somehow it ends up on Facebook without any checking and suddenly it’s out there for public consumption,” he told Nine News.

McGuire said he’d never even met Dr. Phil and plans to take action.

“How Facebook can actually publish this in Australia has got me beat,” he said.

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  1. Suing Facebook is going to be interesting. If they suddenly have to be accountable for the truthfulness of what is posted – be they advertisers or everyday users – you would think that that’s going to be massively problematic. A similar case is happening in the UK.

  3. If Dr Phil did “create” this drug then it had better be more successful than his weight-loss stuff, when he had to settle a law suit for US$10.5million. But Dr Phil is not a medical doctor and this is nothing new. Fake testimonials appear on every site every day promoting one thing or another. “How Facebook can actually publish this in Australia has got me beat”. Welcome to Rebel Wilson’s world, Eddie.

  4. Not a huge McGuire fan, but good, I hope he does do something because those ads shit me along with the you’ll never guess what they look like now style ads (when the person pictured isn’t even feature).

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