Country singer Reba McEntire is facing “serious charges” and asked for prayers regarding a lawsuit involving Fox News and one of its hosts, Martha MacCallum.
In April 2024, Facebook displayed a paid advertisement to users with a picture of country singer and “The Voice” reality TV coach Reba McEntire,
alongside the claim, “Reba McEntire faces serious charges, prayers.”
Users who clicked on the Facebook ad were led to what looked like an article on FoxNews.com.
The page displayed the Fox News design, colors and logo.
The article’s byline showed the name Brit Hume, the news network’s chief political analyst.
The headline read, “Reba McEntire’s solution to reverse dementia sparks huge lawsuit pressure on Fox. She finally fought back!” The article said Fox News host Martha MacCallum planned on filing a lawsuit against both McEntire and the network for violating some sort of contract, supposedly about McEntire’s creation of products named either Makers CBD Gummies or Bloom CBD Gummies.
However, this was not a genuine article published by Fox News. The article posted on the scam website lasaa.ink. According to a search of lasaa.ink with the ICANN Lookup tool, the domain’s registrant may reside in China.
As indicated by our “false” fact-check rating at the top of this article, the story about McEntire, MacCallum, Fox News, Hume, the lawsuit and CBD gummies was completely false. Scammers created the Facebook ad and fake article in an effort to fool users into believing in snake-oil promises about the ability to “reverse dementia,” all to try to lead them into unknowingly signing up for monthly subscriptions for CBD gummies products — in this case Makers CBD Gummies and Bloom CBD Gummies.
McEntire has never had anything to do with CBD gummies, keto gummies or other similar products. Scammers used her image and likeness improperly to sell gummies, just as scammers had done in the past with Oprah Winfrey, Kelly Clarkson, Ree Drummond, Dr. Mehmet Oz and so many other famous people.
Further, Snopes has been tracking these scams for years. Meta has been accepting money to display these very same kinds of false and scammy paid ads about McEntire and gummies since at least August 2022, as we previously reported. These sorts of false and potentially defamatory ads specifically about the country singer have been showing to users – with apparently little to no resistance from the multi-billion dollar social media company – for at least 20 months. Many other ads improperly featuring other celebrities have been showing to users for years as well.
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Source: USA Today
