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At the height of the #MeToo movement and the online fever that accompanied it, then-novelist Stephen Elliott was shocked to find his name on a public Google spreadsheet in which anonymous accusations of sexual misconduct were being made of men who worked in the media industry. Next to his name was the career-ending word, “rape.”

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