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For years, powerful narratives controlled by legacy media and political figures have kept the truth hidden. At Gaslight 360, we are dedicated to empowering individuals to break free from echo chambers and uncover the realities that have been obscured. Our community is built on the belief that every person deserves access to objective truth, free from manipulation and deceit.
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Gaslight 360 identifies gaslighting and poetic truth in media, politics, and culture. Follow live updates, explore key topics, and access resources that empower you to think critically, uncover hidden biases, and broaden your perspective.
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America’s political divide is widening, making meaningful dialogue harder and fostering distrust. Rhetorical tactics, like gaslighting, play a big role—where public figures and media shape perceptions to obscure reality and create confusion.
Our interactive tool helps you spot key phrases in media and political rhetoric. By highlighting these tactics, we empower you to cut through the noise and understand the messages more clearly.
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Research Shows Partisan Bias Affects Perception of Falsehoods
Society recognizes that many politicians lie. In five new studies, researchers examined how conservative and liberal Americans responded to media reports of politicians’ falsehoods. The studies, by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of California, Berkeley, appear in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Meta-Gaslighting: Unmasking the Manipulation of Manipulation
A new trend by the Legacy Media, meta-gaslighting occurs when a narrative claims to expose lies, manipulation, or gaslighting, but in reality, it employs those very tactics to distort the truth and mislead the audience. It’s gaslighting about gaslighting—layered deception designed to confuse and manipulate.
The Salon article titled “Six big lies that won the election: How Donald Trump gaslit America” exemplifies the phenomenon of “meta-gaslighting.”
Truth, Lies, and Tribal Voters
At MIT, scholars are taking a rational look at increasingly irrational political discourse.
The Psychological Drivers of Misinformation Belief and its Resistance to Correction
The reaction to Brown’s death illustrated what Steele calls “poetic truth.” In the same way that poetic license allows a writer to bend the rules of language for effect, poetic truth enables someone to bend facts to suggest a larger truth about society. For example, a widely held poetic truth suggests that systemic racism was a driving factor in the killing of Michael Brown. Sometimes, a broad acceptance of poetic truth can overshadow factual truth: Amazon initially banned the film.
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