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‘I have cancer,’ the TikTok star said. Then the trolls piled on

‘I have cancer,’ the TikTok star said. Then the trolls piled on

Sydney Towle has an enormous audience on the video platform, where her followers praise and support her. But on Reddit, an army of sceptics was determined to paint her as a fraud.

Sydney Towle posted regular about her cancer treatment. It wasn’t long before the online pile-on began and Redditers began questioning if she was telling the truth.  The New York Times

By the time Sydney Towle graduated from Dartmouth College in the US 2022, she had a growing social media side hustle.

On TikTok, where she posted videos, her fans watched her perform dance moves in her kitchen and lip-sync to popular songs. She modelled clothing and posed in bikinis on the beach. She gallivanted around Europe with friends.

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