A Big Lie is a [propaganda](https://doctorparadox.net/dictionaries/authoritarianism/propaganda/) technique in which gross distortions, misrepresentations, and flat out falsehoods are presented as the truth through repeated repetition (leveraging the psychological [repetition effect](https://doctorparadox.net/dictionaries/disinformation-dictionary/repetition-effect/)) to a population until it comes to be widely believed. See also: [GOP Big Lies](https://doctorparadox.net/gop-myths/gop-big-lies/)