NY Post Deletes Story After Supposed GameStop Trader Says He Made It All Up Oops.Lindsey Ellefson | January 29, 2021 @ 8:07 AM Last Updated: January 29, 2021 @ 9:02 AM The New York Post has deleted a story about a 22-year-old who, the paper credulously reported, took out a secret second mortgage on his parents’ home to trade GameStop stock. A Twitter user has claimed responsibility for the story and insists he duped the outlet. The URL where the story once was now turns up a landing page that asks, “Did you get lost?” Meanwhile, a Twitter user who goes by Jack West — and was identified the same way by the Post — has been tweeting screenshots to back up his account that a reporter for the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid took a tweet claiming to take out a second mortgage without his parents’ knowledge too seriously and slid into his DMs to produce the story.