presidency of richard nixon. in 2022, merriam-webster named "gaslighting" as its word of the year due to the vast increase in channels and technologies used to mislead and the word becoming common for the perception of deception. the gospel of afranius, a "nature"-praised atheistic russian work that came out in english in 2022, proposes politically motivated gaslighting as the origin of the foundational christian belief in the resurrection of jesus.