Shaquille O’Neal is disowning content posted on his personal blog and verified Facebook pages yesterday, claiming the company he contracted to pretend to be him online went rogue and that he is not and has never been a “9/11 truther.”


O’Neal’s marketing company—of which he is president, treasurer, and secretary—appears to have hired “social interaction monetization” firm Digital Mavericks to post on his behalf, only to find the company was a bit too maverick-y after the posts yesterday that urged readers to consider whether the 2001 terrorist attacks were an inside job.

Shaq’s website is far from the only one posting this garbage. The Awl noted a few months back that Digital Mavericks manages Waka Flocka Flame’s website, and a cursory Google search reveals several other hip-hop artists whose “personal websites” are mostly made up of Digital Mavericks junk.


Here’s a statement from the crap purveyor as well as one from Digital Mavericks’s CEO.