I was wondering about it too, but apparently it come from George Cukor’s 1944 film “Gaslight”. In the movie, a man is doing nefarious things that cause the gaslight (the kind of lighting they had) to flicker. His wife notices, but he tries to convince her that is it all in her imagination.
So Gaslight the movie, translates to “gaslighting.” Which is trying to convince you that things you absolutely know are not true.
But the article offers more information. Specifically how to spot and defeat gaslighters at your workplace. Frankly, I would quit a job with these kinds of gaslighters (or perhaps just fire them).
If you know how to think logically and how to use the internet, you cannot be gaslighted (gaslit?). Whenever I run across dubious information, I check multiple sources, including those found via VPN connections to servers on other continents. Prior to the internet, the public library was my source of information, and I spent a lot of time there.
Disagree with you on that one. When the “reputable” sources print obvious untruths, and you have no other way to judge. One of the most basis principles of propaganda is that unless you have personal knowledge of a situation, you don’t form and opinion, you choose an opinion from the array of sources around you.
For example, Trump was “impeached” based on a conversation with Ukraine. We all read the transcript, clearly nothing wrong there, but the Democrats still played in that way and since they had a majority they went through with it.
It was the same with the “russia collusion” thing. As soon as I saw those “reports” published on Buzzfeed, I declared them a fake, they were obvious fakes. And yet that was the basis of the first “impeachment”