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·Oct 9, 2020

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 — It 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 planned to use as the pandemic shuttered classrooms for the foreseeable future. Unfamiliar with the product, Lovell scrolled through what seemed to be hundreds…

Technology

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

27 min read

Sarah Emerson and Matthew Giles

Sarah Emerson and Matthew Giles

32 Followers

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

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