you may see me dying on this hill all over instagram, commenting 'who wrote this story?'

And now Pop Apologists have deleted all of those unhinged rants

Yes, the Palace still could have / should have handled this better. But the normalization and saturation of conspiracy theories - and acting like PopApologists - are Woodward & Bernstein - is on everyone who engaged in it

Breaking: Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer.

Following weeks of speculation, Kate Middleton issued a statement to the public: “William and I have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately,”

🔗: vntyfr.com/8AkjmzR

A million friends sending me this and I just have to say out loud that these women are
-likely entertaining and great podcasters!
but also
-not reporters, not credible sources of information, just two women talking with no basis in fact
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop…

Contrary to the copy, this cover does not immediately end web rumors. At all. But it shows they’re at least trying-ish to fill the vacuum with a little counter-narrative / damage control

Not having a free British royal press is never cute, but it's so inconvenient right now

Ken Goff, whose photo agency sold the image of the Prince and Princess of Wales in a car, vouched for the two photographers who took the new shot of the Waleses.

“There’s no way that those two would have done anything with those photos at all.” vntyfr.com/UiHjm9b

so, just for future ref, probably not wise for royal comms to... tell people a princess is going dark for cryptic reasons and expect people to accept that for TWO MONTHS, which is approximately 2 years in internet time

I get that there's some crackling internet-sleuth glee to this Kate saga (mixed with genuine concern) but the level of unmitigated conspiracy theorizing and ignoring reliable experts is actually scary. Let's please not normalize conspiracy theories any more than they already are

If the royal family was half as strategic as people are led to believe or as focused on preserving the Crown, they would have tried to keep Prince Harry and Meghan within the Firm at all costs. vogue.cm/WISc5sx

I venture to say Kate isn’t an amateur photographer. She’s actually very good! I don’t know that she’d edit a photo poorly. While recovering from major surgery.

All of our little internet hopes and dreams alive in Cord Jefferson!

Oh my god this lengthy tribute for each nominee is going to negate the whole starting early thing. Lovely intention but deeply inefficient, I hate it