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Well, why would you talk about "the media" and you feeling gaslit by them? Maybe I misunderstood you? Was it meant as a joke?
"The media" is a common term in American English that refers to mainstream news outlets. I said I felt gaslit because the early headlines and articles on this topic suggested that names were made visible, not that they were merely added to accounts.
Regardless, there is no call for personal attacks. I'm sure you can find the maturity to respond to comments you disagree with in ways that don't involve attacking the users who post them.
Sorry, but where did I personally attack you? And maybe I misunderstood why you referred to "the media" because this gets thrown around by a lot of people like conspiracy or right wing folks. And gaslighting is imo a pretty heavy term where someone intentionally tries to manipulate you into distrusting your own sense of reality. (I know that it is thrown around a lot these days, but that's what I would associate with it). In combination feeling gaslit by "the media" sounded like you distrust the majority of media outlets and that you imply that they intentionally deceive you until you cannot tell what's actually happening. But obviously that was just my interpretation of your statement...
I get that you didn't mean that, so all good.
Perhaps there is a tonal message in your words that you didn't intend (your native language seems to be German?). This paragraph comes across as dismissing my comment while making a sweeping, inaccurate, and baseless judgment that I "distrust any media that contradicts my beliefs:"
Hard to see how that couldn't be meant as, at best, a passive-aggressive dig, implying some level of instability or paranoia.