[sph]

An ultra-capitalist billionaire doing PR and saying bollocks to a journo is not gaslighting. It's just bollocks. Stop misusing that word.

[TheAtomic]

Have you heard the joke about gaslighting?

[sph]

You've told me that joke already. Please stop.

[TheAtomic]

No I haven't.

[epakai]

If not it is getting pretty close.

[ ] emotional abuse [x] false narrative [x] make people question their own judgement or perception

It's clearly a case of someone in power using their reach to manipulate public opinion. Anyway, I find the term of Stockholm Syndrome equally misused here. I was responding in-kind.