section_path: Career and deceit/Attempted clean-up and defence
section_name: Attempted clean-up and defence
paragraph_text: Attempted clean-up and defence
  
  Once the controversy surfaced in the media, The Whole Pantry began removing any comments made on its (later-deleted) Facebook page that questioned Gibson's claims, asserting that these comments only added to "the misinformation" of the initial Fairfax article. This selective deletion drew even more criticism.
  
  Posts that Gibson had made on her Instagram account that made reference to her cancers or charitable donations were also selectively deleted. Soon after, all posts were deleted from Gibson's and The Whole Pantry ' s Instagram accounts. Around the same time, individual postings about Gibson's cancer, and claims of having died briefly while under heart surgery, were also being selectively deleted by the administrator of her blog "at the request of a user". Accounts across a number of social media platforms were soon either abandoned, made private, or deleted in their entirety. Gibson subsequently established another Facebook account under an alias, which was used to defend her work and counter what she called "bullying" of herself and family. She wrote that she would shortly publish an "open letter".
  
  Once the controversy surfaced in the media, The Whole Pantry began removing any comments made on its (later-deleted) Facebook page that questioned Gibson's claims, asserting that these comments only added to "the misinformation" of the initial Fairfax article. This selective deletion drew even more criticism.
  
  Posts that Gibson had made on her Instagram account that made reference to her cancers or charitable donations were also selectively deleted. Soon after, all posts were deleted from Gibson's and The Whole Pantry ' s Instagram accounts. Around the same time, individual postings about Gibson's cancer, and claims of having died briefly while under heart surgery, were also being selectively deleted by the administrator of her blog "at the request of a user". Accounts across a number of social media platforms were soon either abandoned, made private, or deleted in their entirety. Gibson subsequently established another Facebook account under an alias, which was used to defend her work and counter what she called "bullying" of herself and family. She wrote that she would shortly publish an "open letter".