White House Dismisses Fake Sources Cited in RFK Jr.’s MAHA Report as ‘Formatting Issues’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the significance of fake sources being cited in a report put together by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again Commission on Thursday, earning a follow-up question about whether the report had been generated by artificial intelligence

NOTUS reported on Thursday morning that the report is “rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions,” and that “seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.”

At a press briefing later in the day, NOTUS’s Jasmine Wright asked Leavitt for the White House’s reaction to the news:

WRIGHT: A NOTUS investigation found that the hallmark MAHA Commission report that was released last week cites studies that appear to not exist. We know that because in part, we reached out to some of the listed authors who said that they didn’t write the studies cited. So I want to ask, does the White House have confidence that the information coming from HHS can be trusted?

LEAVITT: Yes, we have complete confidence in Secretary Kennedy and his team at HHS. I understand there were some formatting issues with the MAHA report that are being addressed, and the report will be updated. But it does not negate the substance of the report, which, as you know, is one of the most transformative health reports that has ever been released by the federal government, and is backed on good science that has never been recognized by the government.

WRIGHT: Quick follow-up, can you talk about what tools or research goes into production of these kinds of reports? For instance, is it AI that’s used to put together these reports now?

LEAVITT: I can’t speak to that. I would defer you to the Department of Health and Human Services. What I know is just what I told you.

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