Dive Brief:

• Occidental College has been receiving false allegations of sexual assault as part of an apparent protest against its anonymous reporting system.
• The hundreds of fake allegations appear to stem from the online communities Reddit and 4Chan.
• The Southern California college has been at the center of a push to hold college officials to federal laws regarding sexual assault reporting after the school acknowledged it had failed to report dozens of allegations in 2010 and 2011.

Dive Insight:

How do we know these allegations are fake? It's easy: Some of the complaints say victims have been assaulted by "Occidental College" or "feminists." One task now facing the school: sorting through the complaints to find any genuine allegations that have arrived during the 36 hours or so that the false allegations arrived.