A new hoax about Mercadona products is distributed via WhatsApp
Again WhatsApp is again the way to distribute a defamation campaign against products sold in stores Mercadona This has been reported by one of its distributors, RNB , who has reported the case to the authorities to find out the origin of said lie. And it is that new message chains mentioning several of the products from their cosmetics section have started to spread like wildfire without any scientific or real foundation, according to the aforementioned distributor.
The message repeats the format of another that was distributed last year, but being updated and naming he alth authorities to try to offer a more realistic perspective and get the attention of users of WhatsApp In this way, he names up to eleven cosmetic products of the brand Deliplus that can be found in stores Mercadona and that claim to have been withdrawn by He alth due to their components and contraindicated reactions for users .
The reality is quite different, none of these products have been withdrawn. However, the hoax seems to be going through group conversations quickly, distributing without any criteria and even leading users to believe that they can return such products if they have not used them yet.All of it supposedly signed by a doctor from the Infanta Leonor Hospital in Madrid Again, a hoax that has nothing to do with truth.
Apparently, this message echoes the news that reached the media in 2012, when several products of the brand Deliplus They were out of the law because they contained a component that, without being harmful to he alth, was not included in Spanish law. After modifying said component in the composition, the products continued on the shelves without any problem. However, the news served to create a hoax in 2014 with the eleven affected products. And now it is repeated with a new format, but exactly the same content.
According to RNB, this is a new smear campaign against products Deliplus, and asks WhatsApp users to do not collaborate in the distribution of this message that is nothing more than a lie.Something quite difficult to control due to the virality of this type of content, which ends up being resent “just in case” through different chats and conversations in the application WhatsApp
Of course it will not be the first nor the last of the hoaxes that will take advantage of WhatsApp to attract the most unsuspecting users. That is why you have to use common sense and try to verify the sources before disseminating information that could be false and affect both the supermarket chain and the users themselves. At the moment RNB claims to have reported the case to the authorities to find the origin of the hoax. And it is that WhatsApp can be useful to inform but also to misinform and carry out all kinds of campaigns in which the users themselves are victims and executioners
