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What was the controversy involving Junot Díaz?

In 2018 author Junot Díaz was accused of verbal abuse and sexual misconduct by several women, which led to an investigation by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where Díaz had begun teaching in 2003. He was later cleared of wrongdoing by MIT and remained a professor there. The controversy also led three editors at the Boston Review, where he served as a fiction editor, to resign in protest. Díaz released a statement that said he accepted responsibility for his past.