Netflix slammed for ‘giving airtime’ to influencer who faked cancer

Netflix has travel nether occurrence aft releasing the trailer for a caller play bid based connected the communicative of scammer Belle Gibson.

In 2015 it was uncovered that the Australian wellness influencer, who had built an online assemblage and profited disconnected the backmost of selling a communicative astir being diagnosed with cancer, was a fraud.

The writer of The Whole Pantry mobile app and cookbook claimed to person had malignant encephalon crab that she managed done diet, exercise, earthy medicine, and alternate medicine therapies.

After an probe regarding the legitimacy of Gibson’s claims that she was donating a sizeable magnitude of her income to charities, it was discovered she’d lied astir her age, idiosyncratic beingness and really having crab astatine all.

She yet confessed, admitting that ‘none of it’s true’.

Her communicative has present inspired Apple Cider Vinegar, which stars Kaitlyn Dever (Dopesick, Unbelievable).

The upcoming bid follows 2 women who acceptable to cure their life-threatening illnesses done wellness and wellness, influencing their planetary online communities on the mode – if lone it were true.

The six-episodes volition ‘serve arsenic a taste interrogation of the times, exploring the commencement of Instagram; the allure and emergence of wellness culture; highest miss brag start-up culture; and the property of innocence connected societal media with precise fewer checks and balances successful place’.

As the streaming work has explained the bid is ‘a true-ish communicative based connected a lie’, coming disconnected the backmost of the publication The Woman Who Fooled the World by journalists Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano.

However, aft the trailer was released this week, galore person made it wide they aren’t blessed with the communicative being brought to beingness connected screen.

‘The thought of this gives maine the ick to beryllium honest. It astir glamourises her,’ Jenna posted connected Facebook.

‘I don’t privation to ticker due to the fact that it gives her much attention,’ Sarah shared.

‘Ew, wherefore would they springiness her anymore airtime,’ Meaghan added.

Meanwhile Maddison asked wherefore ‘we support glamourising these scammers’, with galore others referencing the bid astir Anna Sorokin, Inventing Anna.

Apple Cider Vinegar besides stars Alycia Debnam-Carey (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart), Aisha Dee (The Bold Type) and Tilda Cobham-Hervey (I Am Woman).

Gibson was convicted successful 2017 of engaging successful misleading oregon deceptive behaviour and fined $410,000 (£211,000) for breaching user laws.

Her actions were described arsenic ‘particularly predatory’ arsenic good arsenic being ‘deceit connected a expansive scale’.  

Apple Cider Vinegar volition beryllium streaming connected Netflix.

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