Think about so-called deepfakes, those women’s faces being fastened on the bodies of porn stars and passed around. Our story is more akin to those tales than anything that has to do with Title IX. When I finally recognized that we were the ones being harassed, I wrote to Melanie and asked for help. We met with Melanie and her supervisor and were told that, in the future, anonymous accusations would be fact-checked before new investigations were opened. Melanie told us she had started writing up her report, but she said she couldn’t give us a timeline for its completion.

Source: New York Times March 18, 2020 09:00 UTC