Black propaganda

Disinformation is false or misleading information deliberately spread to deceive people, or to secure economic or political gain and which may cause public harm. Disinformation is an orchestrated adversarial activity in which actors employ strategic deceptions and media manipulation tactics to advance political, military, or commercial goals. Disinformation is implemented through coordinated campaigns that "weaponize multiple rhetorical strategies and forms of knowing—including not only falsehoods but also truths, half-truths, and value judgements—to exploit and amplify culture wars and other

supposed tendency in historical writing demonising Spain and the Spanish Empire

form of influence campaign

Journalist, propagandist (1904–1979)

the spreading of deliberate fabrications or exaggerations about the crimes committed by an enemy

World War II Allied propagandist; singer (1923-1999)