• Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.

• No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.

• No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget or expenses, such as an independently audited financial statement.

• Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions.

• There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil.

• Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances.

• There are records, books, news articles, or broadcast reports that document the abuses of the group/leader.

• Followers feel they can never be "good enough".

• The group/leader is always right.

• The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/27/cults-definition-religion#:~:text=Here%20are%2010%20warning%20signs%20of%20a%20potentially%20unsafe%20group%20or%20leader.&text=Absolute%20authoritarianism%20without%20meaningful%20accountability.&text=No%20tolerance%20for%20questions%20or%20critical%20inquiry.&text=No%20meaningful%20financial%20disclosure%20regarding,an%20independently%20audited%20financial%20statement.