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A Popular Online Learning Platform Was Actually Created by an Underground Religious ‘Cult’

The creator of Acellus and the ‘cult’s leader has been accused of violence and abuse

Sarah Emerson and Matthew Giles
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27 min readOct 9, 2020

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ItIt was summer when Mark Mauikānehoalani Lovell, a teacher at Palolo Elementary on Oahu, logged into Acellus Learning Accelerator, a remote education platform the school had…

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Sarah Emerson and Matthew Giles
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Sarah Emerson and Matthew Giles are reporters at OneZero, Medium’s tech and science publication.