Belle Gibson: the wellness blogger who never had cancer
The Federal Court of Australia fined Belle Gibson A$410,000. The largest single count was not about the cancer she never had. It was about a week of app sales owed to a sick child.
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Category: Case Files
Documented exposes. Every claim in this section traces to a court judgment, a regulator’s action, a company’s own disclosure or reporting by a named journalist at an established outlet. Sources are numbered at the foot of each article.
The follower factory: what a fake audience actually costs
Followers cost about a cent each. Clicks cost less. Here is the documented price list, the two regulators who called it illegal, and the honest limits of the data.
$1.26 million for one Instagram post: the SEC crypto ledger
A running tally of the celebrities the SEC has charged over undisclosed crypto promotion, what each one paid, and the FTX defendants who mostly won.
Fyre Festival was a marketing case study before it was a crime
An orange square, 400 accounts, 95% of tickets gone in 48 hours. Billy McFarland got six years. No influencer was ever charged or found liable.