Airdate: Bad Influencer

ABC will screen a BBC documentary Bad Influencer which looks at the rise and fall of Belle Gibson, one of Instagram’s first super-influencers.

It notes that Gibson was invited to comment but declined.

By 23, wellness guru Belle Gibson had cultivated an adoring global following online with the story that she had successfully treated her own terminal cancer by eating a plant based diet and using alternative natural therapies. But there was one problem with Belle’s story: she had never had cancer.

The film lifts the lid on one of social media’s great mysteries: who was the real Belle Gibson – an ingenious con artist or damaged young woman trapped in a lie?

9:30pm Monday July 19 on ABC.