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Masklighting: a genre of COVID journalism mixing activism with reporting that admits wearing a mask can feel like suffocating but says don’t worry about it. The term comes from a combination of two terms: 1) gaslighting (denying someone else's reality) and 2) muckraking (a genre of activist journalism).
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