How to Fact Check Your Favourite Wellness and Health Blog and avoid Fake Health News
In the December 2014 issue of ELLE Australia, Elle published a feature titled ' The Most Inspiring Woman You've Met This Year ' after she blogged about beating terminal brain cancer through alternative therapies. Thousands of followers bought her tale of healing through clean eating. This is a sample fake health news! Questions about Gibson began to arise in 2015, when she failed to donate the $320,000 she’d promised from sales of her app and cookbook, through her company The Whole Pantry. From there, the truth started spilling out. Gibson never had cancer. She lied about her life, her background, and even her age . Everything The Whole Pantry was based on had been fabricated. Last week, the shocking story came to a conclusion when an Australian federal court in Melbourne ordered Gibson to pay $320,000 back to the state of Victoria for lying about charitable donations. The internet can be a great resource, depending on how you use it. And amongst the false cla