Discussion

• @finn3v Finn on x

  The entire Medvi run is a case study of just absolute big dicking it at every turn, in the most eggregious way possible, with 0 fucks given in any way Men can't conquer the world anymore so they run up $1b blackhat schemes and then flex on new york times Lesson in there

• @rhyssullivan Rhys on x

  Great video by @coffeebreak_YT breaking down questionable aspects of Medvi - Has an FDA warning letter - Ads w/ fake doctors - AI generated before / after photos & testimonials NYT article mentions none of this for some reason, full video in reply [video]

• @brand @brand on x

  BREAKING 🚨: This is extremely illegal. This is Matthew Gallagher, who created 800+ Facebook accounts posing as fake doctors to advertise on Facebook, and went on to build a GLP-1 telehealth company with just $20,000, AI, and only one full-time teammate, his brother. The New York …

• @galligator Matthew Gallagher on x

  Watching in realtime as people learn about white label, drop shipping, and affiliate marketing is like seeing cavemen “fire bad” White label telemedicine is a huge benefit with a net positive for humanity. It has been the driving force behind big pharma lowering prices and

• @ssaaammiirr @ssaaammiirr on x

  Hot take: the Medvi story has nothing to do with AI. A guy built a $1.8B company with 2 people. Cool. But strip away the AI headline and look at what's underneath: Telehealth subscriptions. I've been in this space. I've seen the numbers up close. The LTVs are borderline unfair

• @aakashgupta Aakash Gupta on x

  The NYT just profiled Medvi as the AI success story of the decade. $1.8B in projected revenue, 2 employees, Sam Altman's prediction made real. Here's what the NYT didn't lead with. Medvi received FDA Warning Letter #721455 in February 2026 for misbranding violations. Their

• @robertfreundlaw Rob Freund on x

  Medvi was sued in a class action last month for violating California's anti-spam law. “MEDVi's affiliate marketers send spam use falsified header information, spoofed domains and nonsensical sending addresses to evade spam filters. They also use false and deceptive subject [image…

• @rwmalonemd Robert W Malone on x

  NYT screwed the pooch yet again.

• @kekius_sage Kekius Maximus on x

  Medvi received FDA Warning Letter #721455 in February 2026 for misbranding violations. Their clinician network OpenLoop suffered a data breach in January 2026 that exposed 1.6 million patient records. Futurism reported they used AI-generated deepfake before-and-after photos in [i…

• @choffstein @choffstein on x

  somewhere along the way, “move fast and break things” turned into “move fast and break laws” [image]

• @zachweinberg @zachweinberg on x

  The @nytimes writes a hype piece about a clear healthcare scam and at no point goes “hey maybe something is off here?” And people wonder why no one in the business world trusts NYT to be objective? You guys barely understand how anything works! It's embarrassing incompetence.

• @robertfreundlaw Rob Freund on x

  One hundred percent correct. If you're building a brick-and-mortar local bakery, ok. If you're building a “selling fake drugs that don't exist promoted by fake doctors who don't exist” business, definitely stfu!

• @pitdesi Sheel Mohnot on x

  they have ~800 ads running right now from fake doctors (and another 4,000 running with fake testimonials and from fake organizations). This is highly illegal (using an AI generated doctor image and quote). The same quote is being used by hundreds of doctors (who are not real) [im…

• @coyington Garland-Coy on x

  I think this Medvi situation is the perfect reason why you do not follow the absolute brain dead take “build in public” Even ignoring the actual issues, when you're big enough, everyone is going to come for you.

• @slotkinjr Dr. Jon Slotkin on x

  I really did not want to be writing this morning. But this issue is too important. It's been said that the last thing the weather person should do before going on the air is look out the window. The _day before_ @eringriffith profiled Medvi in @nytimes as the AI company of the

• @pitdesi Sheel Mohnot on x

  They made facebook accounts for 800+ fake doctors (I had Claude verify, none of them are actually doctors, especially not “Dr. Tuckr Carlzyn MD") to advertise on Facebook. This is extremely illegal, just takes FTC to notice it and it'll be hard for them to advertise on FB [image]

• @robertfreundlaw Rob Freund on x

  Interesting telehealth class action lawsuit: A guy bought “oral tirzepatide” from MEDvi (not a defendant). Problem is, allegedly, oral tirzepatide is not a compound that actually exists. It is allegedly impossible for it to exist. Inert. He's suing OpenLoop and Triad for [image]

• @mags_h11 Maggie Harrison Dupré on x

  In May 2025, I first reported that Medvi was very obviously fabricating before-and-after weight loss images of purported GLP-1 customers who were not real. “Sometimes you have to see it to believe it,” the company stated next to the falsified images. https://futurism.com/... [ima…

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  I am appalled by the puff piece NYT wrote about “billion dollar” company Medvi. Here's a very different perspective: https://garymarcus.substack.com/ ...

• @antinertia Jeddi on x

  medvi is only the tip of the iceberg if you knew how people are scaling with ai ugc fake doctors are nothing compared to what really happens in the ai ugc industry oh god you are so naive

• @alexgroberman Alex Groberman on x

  Confused as to why Matthew Gallagher and Medvi are catching so much heat. Still haven't seen one person calling them scammers explain why. The New York Times verified the financials. Hims and Hers is a publicly traded telehealth company prescribing the same category of weight

• @adi_baradwaj Adi on x

  So... have we just accepted that fraud is how Silicon Valley operates now? Medvi, Delve, Mercor, Cluely - and that's just in the past couple weeks

• @anothercohen Alex Cohen on x

  Friend got a marketing email from Medvi this morning. Email copy aside, the provider they are using in the screenshot is an actual doctor, not an NP, whose real name is Alec Wier, and he is COMPLETELY UNAFFILIATED with Medvi. This entire company is run on fraud and deception [ima…