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World Service,3 mins

Apps, lies and ‘healthy eating’: the cancer con that fooled the world

The Food Chain

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Blogger Belle Gibson claimed she cured her brain cancer with her healthy diet. She had a huge following on instagram, had secured a book deal with Penguin in Australia and was hand picked by Apple as a star App developer, but there was one catch, her claims were false. Beau Donelly, one of the journalists who exposed her fraudulent claims tells Emily Thomas her incredible story. (Photo: A Rotten Apple Credit: Getty Images)

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