Unpacking Gaslighting: Understanding the Manipulation

A text-heavy image presents a list comparing smartphone behavior to abusive relationships, detailing how phones isolate users, blame them for their own use, betray them with data leaks, love-bomb them with upgrades, and make life without them seem impossible. The text concludes with the punchline: 'Nope. Our devices are basically gaslighting us. They tell us they work for and care about us, and if we just treat them right then we can learn to trust them. But all the evidence shows the opposite is true.'

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