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There's that word again. In this case it's usually just called "lying".

• StavrosK 9y ago
  It's definitely called "lying". I don't know why people want to dilute a word with perfectly good meaning.
  • knuththetruth 9y ago
    I think that certain kinds of lying have already been so normalized (e.g. all of Zuckerberg and company’s evasion/tactics around this scandal), that people are trying to recenter the dishonesty as something that’s wrong/inappropriate with different language.
  • lainga 9y ago
    I don't want to gaslight you, but I suspect the word gaslight might be more popular among the Daily Beast's readership.