The fake olive oil story

You may have recently clicked into online articles that claimed to know ‘which olive oil brands are real’, ‘list of fake olive oils’ or ‘click here, as we reveal a list of brands you can trust’.

The articles hang by a single precarious thread – and that thread has been woven through an uncritical blogosphere and social media so many times that it’s become a tapestry of untruth.

The story has been circulating for a while now, usually under the headline «14 Fake Olive Oil Companies Revealed Now». It’s stirred up considerable interest among consumers and it certainly caught our attention, because what the article has to say about Bertolli Olive Oil is absolutely false.

What’s been circulating is fake news. So please allow us to clear things up. This click-bait article was created in Veles, the town in Macedonia famous for fake news.

Please have a look at the three posts below that describes in detail how this story about olive oil is itself fake, how it evolved and how misleading it is and the overall damage it has done to the Olive Oil industry as a whole.

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