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A contemporary form of gaslighting conducted through digital platforms—social media, messaging apps, forums—where one or more participants systematically discredit, confuse, and undermine another’s perception of reality. Digitallighting uses techniques like selective screenshotting, public mockery, coordinated downvoting, and the creation of alternate “evidence” to make the target doubt their own memory, judgment, or sanity. Unlike classical gaslighting (typically intimate and private), digitallighting is often public, involving multiple actors, and can escalate rapidly across platforms.
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