I’ve been traveling and attending conferences last week and also this week (check out NLAS!), so the weekend edition is arriving a couple days late

Last Week's Scroll: Conspiracies and Scams

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2024-06-11 20:00:03

I’ve been traveling and attending conferences last week and also this week (check out NLAS!), so the weekend edition is arriving a couple days late. But it’s here! I’m still alive! Enjoy all the best, worst, and most interesting things happening on the social web last week.

A few months back we reported on the state of the British royal family - specifically, the state of Kate Middleton and why she had gone missing from public view for so long. To recap:

Kate’s last public appearance had been on Christmas Day 2023, after which she had a ‘planned surgery’ that was pretty obviously unplanned.

The palace decided the best response to all of this was to release an obviously photoshopped picture of her, which caused speculation to shift from ‘Haha This Is Funny’ to ‘Wait Is She Actually Dead’.

After this PR fiasco led to a tidal wave of internet conspiracies, Kate finally released a video revealing she had cancer and that was the reason she’d disappeared from public view.