• Citigroup employee who ran popular QAnon website put on paid leave

    Citigroup employee who ran popular QAnon website put on paid leave

    Citigroup said it has placed an employee on paid leave after he was unmasked as the operator of a popular website linked with the conspiracy group QAnon. Jason Gelinas — a 48-year-old resident of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, who is a senior vice president in the technology group at Citi, according to a now-defunct LinkedIn …
  • Britney Spears says conservator arrangement was ‘voluntary,’ requests new guardian

    Britney Spears says conservator arrangement was ‘voluntary,’ requests new guardian

    Britney Spears told a court this week that her decade long conservatorship was voluntary. The conservatorship — known in other states as legal guardianship — has been in place for the past 12 years and dictates the 38-year-old singer’s legal and professional life, under the supervision of a conservator, which, in her case, has mostly …
  • ACLU offers to help Britney Spears amid #FreeBritney movement

    ACLU offers to help Britney Spears amid #FreeBritney movement

    Britney Spears has been offered a hand from the American Civil Liberties Union in the battle over conservatorship. The pop star had asked a court to remove her father, Jamie Spears, as her sole conservator, though a judge on Friday extended the arrangement for another six months. “People with disabilities have a right to lead …
  • Facebook removes nearly 800 QAnon groups over safety fears

    Facebook removes nearly 800 QAnon groups over safety fears

    Facebook removed hundreds of QAnon conspiracy groups over concerns that they could threaten public safety. The social-media giant said Wednesday it took down more than 790 groups, 100 pages and 1,500 ads linked to the conspiracy theorist movement. Facebook has also blocked more than 300 hashtags and imposed restrictions on more than 1,950 groups, 440 …
  • Britney Spears’ dad calls #FreeBritney a ‘conspiracy theory’

    Britney Spears’ dad calls #FreeBritney a ‘conspiracy theory’

    Jamie Spears is sick and tired of how #FreeBritney — an increasingly vocal online movement claiming his daughter Britney Spears is a prisoner in a gilded cage — is painting him as a villain. An upset Jamie, 68, told The Post that the campaign, which posits him as a cruel and opportunistic father keeping the …
  • Madonna’s Instagram flagged for spreading ‘false’ COVID-19 information

    Madonna’s Instagram flagged for spreading ‘false’ COVID-19 information

    Madonna is doing what she does best again: getting censored. Yesterday, Instagram obscured a video from the superstar’s account for touting a conspiracy theory that claims a cure for the coronavirus has “been found and proven and has been available for months.” “They would rather let fear control the people and let the rich get …
  • Did Taylor Swift reveal Blake Lively’s baby’s name in new song ‘Betty’?

    Did Taylor Swift reveal Blake Lively’s baby’s name in new song ‘Betty’?

    The queen of pop might also be the queen of name drop. After Taylor Swift, 30, unveiled her newest album “Folklore” early Friday, it wasn’t long before superfans started circulating a theory that the song “Betty” is in fact named after Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s youngest daughter. Swift has long been friends with the …
  • Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly thinks Epstein was murdered, fears the same fate

    Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly thinks Epstein was murdered, fears the same fate

    Ghislaine Maxwell believes her ex-lover Jeffrey Epstein was murdered behind bars and lives in fear of facing the same unfortunate end, according to a new report. “Everyone’s view including Ghislaine’s is Epstein was murdered. She received death threats before she was arrested,” an unnamed friend told The Sun. A federal judge denied Maxwell bail on …
  • No, Bill Gates didn’t repeatedly visit Jeffrey Epstein’s island

    No, Bill Gates didn’t repeatedly visit Jeffrey Epstein’s island

    Viral claims circulating on social media claim that billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has traveled to Jeffrey Epstein’s island multiple times. While Gates and Epstein had met in the past, this claim, based on flight logs recently subpoenaed, is untrue. One example reads: “Flight records confirm that #BillGates went to #Epsteins child sex trafficking island, 17 …
  • How ‘Little House on the Prairie’ eerily predicted the coronavirus

    How ‘Little House on the Prairie’ eerily predicted the coronavirus

    Burning fevers? Check! Quarantining? Check! An alarming death toll from a mysterious illness amid widespread fear and confusion? Check and check! Two haunting episodes of the classic show “Little House on the Prairie,” which ran between 1974 and 1983, chillingly foreshadow the current coronavirus crisis in the form of a typhus epidemic, a common occurrence …