As some of my readers may know, a guy by the name of Elliot Temple has been publishing several false and potentially career-ruining accusations against me since 2020. The overarching one is that I have been participating in what he calls an ‘harassment campaign’ – effectively a conspiracy to harass him. I have not, and I can’t imagine any such conspiracy exists at all.

Last year, I saw an opportunity to extend an olive branch and reached out to Temple to see if we could reconcile. That led to disaster; he ignored my suggestion to do mediation and eventually stopped responding altogether. Next, my lawyers had to send Temple a cease and desist for defamation (then he suddenly wanted mediation). When they offered him a mutual non-disparagement agreement, he declined. At the time of writing, he still hasn’t stopped defaming me.

New evidence has come to light showing that the defamation is even worse than I originally thought, and that Temple is monitoring my success to bring up past complaints with my followers to tear me back down anytime. This forces me to have something on hand to direct people to. So I’m publishing a four-piece exposé about:

• The enormous extent of Temple’s defamation of me
• His and his group’s overwhelming toxicity
• His blatant intellectual hypocrisy, and
• His serious violation of my and others’ privacy.

Like Temple, I’m issuing a no-contact request, to him and his associates. You are not to contact me, directly or through others, via any channels, anonymously or otherwise, about anything. In addition, you are banned from having and/or making accounts, and/or generating content on, my websites. Don’t look for loopholes – interpret this no-contact request in the widest way possible. For example, don’t communicate with me anonymously, thinking I won’t know it’s you. Don’t cause third parties to talk to me. Again, this is a general no-contact request about any topic. (Temple hasn’t initiated contact in a long time, but I’m being extra clear because I once sent him a no-contact request and he conveniently interpreted it as pertaining only to a specific issue, then contacted me again and even caused several others to dogpile me.) Proactively take steps to stay out of my life and not remind me of you. That includes stopping disparaging me.

I don’t want to remain in an adversarial relationship with Temple. But continued defamation leaves me no choice but to keep responding until the defamation stops. He must now unilaterally comply with the terms from the proposed non-disparagement agreement for me to consider this issue resolved. I won’t interpret removals as an admission of guilt. I’ll just be happy I can move on.

My lawyers have placed Temple on a spoliation hold and are keeping an eye on his and his associates’ websites. As I’ve said, new evidence has come to light showing that the defamation was even worse than I thought. I ask that people come forward with additional evidence of defamation, public or private, recent or past, whether by Temple directly or others repeating or linking to his claims. Contact me privately at dh@dennishackethal.com if you have any leads. Your help is appreciated.

Update: Since Temple still has not complied with the proposed non-disparagement agreement even though it would cost him nothing, I have decided to help fund others’ legal efforts against him. If you have a legal complaint against Temple (some people have already told me they do), contact me and I may, upon review and at my discretion, give you money to pursue it.