Over a year after publicly addressing allegations of sexual assault, Neil Gaiman has posted a new statement on his blog, again denying the allegations, before hyping up his untitled next novel, and thanking fans who have supported him. On that note, he links to a Substack newsletter named TechnoPathology, which bills itself as the home of the “Neil Gaiman is Innocent” project.
He writes:
One thing that’s kept me going through all this madness is the conviction that the truth would, eventually, come out. I expected that when the allegations were first made there would be journalism, and that the journalism would take the (mountains of) evidence into account, and was astonished to see how much of the reporting was simply an echo chamber, and how the actual evidence was dismissed or ignored.
I was a journalist once, and I have enormous respect for journalists, so I’ve been hugely heartened by the meticulous fact and evidence-based investigative writing of one particular journalist, whom some of you recently brought to my attention, who writes under the name of TechnoPathology.
I’ve had no contact with TechnoPathology. But I’d like to thank them personally for actually looking at the evidence and reporting what they found, which is not what anyone else had done.
TechnoPathology’s author describes themself as “part of the initial wave of online journalism back in the early 2010s, with activist and social change media run out of abandoned buildings. Since then, I’ve had mainstream success in the field of technology journalism, basing that off of my years researching environmental tech. Today I see the dark side emerge out of our dream of an informed global citizenship. Manipulation, brainwashing and attention hi-jacking rule the internet, all under the almighty command of the algorithm.”
Their earliest newsletter dates back to April 2025, during which time their initial focus was on Buddhism and “Native American [sic] struggles in British Columbia.” In July, they switched their focus to Gaiman, with posts raising doubts around his accusers (including his former nanny Scarlett Pavlovich), such as “Neil Gaiman Is Innocent: Was Scarlett Paid?,” and “Gaiman Is Innocent: The Accusers Are ‘Poor-Mouthing.’”
Further entries claim Gaiman was targeted by an anti-trans conspiracy, that the allegations engaged in antisemitic tropes (Gaiman is from a Jewish family), and accuse Substack and Rachel Johnson (the co-writer of Master, the Tortoise Media podcast that broke the story of the allegations) of censoring them. There are also posts praising Gaiman’s work, including Coraline, and one discussing how Pedro Pascal was targeted by an online smear campaign last year.
Following New York magazine’s report about Gaiman in January 2025, he and his former partner Amanda Palmer were sued by Pavlovich for sexual assault and human trafficking. The lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice after it was deemed more appropriate to pursue in New Zealand, where the alleged crimes took place, than where it was filed in the United States. Additionally, Dark Horse Comics and the Good Omens Kickstarter project severed ties with him, and while season two of Netflix’s The Sandman was released, Prime Video’s Anansi Boys series remains apparently shelved in the meantime.
When the allegations about Gaiman first broke in 2024, it was reported he responded by hiring PR firm Edendale Strategies, and lawyer Andrew Brettler, who has represented convicted rapist Danny Masterson, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the alleged client of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Doubtless, this story will do little to ward off suspicion of TechnoPathology engaging in a coordinated campaign with the author before the release of his new book.
