{"id":5505,"date":"2025-04-27T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T04:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2025-04-27T12:40:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T04:40:40","slug":"belle-gibson-the-influencer-who-deceived-hundreds-of-thousands-through-her-online-instagram-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5505\/belle-gibson-the-influencer-who-deceived-hundreds-of-thousands-through-her-online-instagram-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Belle Gibson: The influencer who deceived hundreds of thousands through her online Instagram community"},"content":{"rendered":"\nMany Instagram communities negatively impact users\u2019 perceptions of reality, highlighting the need for higher regulation on social media. Social media platforms like Instagram have become central to modern society, significantly shaping how we think, feel and connect with others. Social media communities are reshaping human society, offering significant benefits but also posing potential risks (Bainbridge, 2020). Although Instagram communities offer a space to connect and belong, the communities <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5505\/belle-gibson-the-influencer-who-deceived-hundreds-of-thousands-through-her-online-instagram-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Instagram communities negatively impact users\u2019 perceptions of reality, highlighting the need for higher regulation on social media. Social media platforms like Instagram have become central to modern society, significantly shaping how we think, feel and connect with others. Social media communities are reshaping human society, offering significant benefits but also posing potential risks (Bainbridge, 2020). Although Instagram communities offer a space to connect and belong, the communities &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5506,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}