"Gaslighting" is a word that has had this momentum in the past few years. "We have lots of synonyms in English for lying, don't we? And this is a new synonym," she says. It's also a reflection of a broader cultural fact: Technology deceives us and our culture lives in an age of doubt.
It’s sooo 2016, but the word still mattered a lot in 2022. Merriam-Webster explains.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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