BBC News released a 25-minute documentary on August 5, 2021 called “Sickness and Lies.” It is about the chronic illness community online, the accusations against these chronic illness advocates, and the effects of the subreddit “illnessfakers.” The subreddit “illnessfakers” uses the forum to attempt to disprove chronic illness advocates and others who speak about their illness online.
At first, the BBC documentary was presented in a different way to several of the chronic illness advocates who were involved.
They were led to believe that the documentary would focus on how chronic illness advocates are being bullied and called fakers just for sharing their stories on the internet.
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