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  • Here’s the easy first check to tell if claims are legit: specificity. If the supposed victim can’t tell anyone how the abuse happened, you’re looking at DARVO nine times out of ten. Mind you recounting abuse can be very difficult, but it’s absolutely vital to tell a story about what happened even if it’s only once.

    Unfortunately, these allegations pass that check. There’s one woman who says she was pressured to give blowjobs to Gaiman or she’d lose her house, which he owned. That’s specific. Could still be fake, but it’s not as easy to tell if that’s the case as it is with a lot of allegations.

    I share this information because it ought to be common knowledge, and unfortunately it’s not. Too many people out there falling for zero-specificity claims. We need to teach the general public more about fact checking skills.