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Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022

Does CNN Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta have a CBD gummies business?

Marlo Lee, Lead Stories
no

The site that published an article about Gupta and CBD gummies is made to look like a page from CNN.com, but is not from the real CNN health website. The real CNN health website has no such article about Gupta and a new CBD gummies business venture.

The article alludes to a TV appearance Gupta purportedly made, but with no link to watch it. Lead Stories did not find any clip of Gupta offering viewers discounted samples of the CBD gummies. The purported story has the names of two real CNN journalists in the byline but those names link to ads for CBD gummies instead of professional profiles of CNN staff.

A spokesperson for Gupta told Lead Stories that the story about Gupta and a CBD gummies business is false.

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