How do countries hide their losses during wars?

Question

I know it is normal for countries to deflate their casualty numbers during war, but how do they do it? If for example 1000 soldiers are killed in a month, how could a government claim only 400 were killed without the public discover this to be a lie? Surley the families of the killed soldiers are promptly informed.

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Answer 1

Going off ww1 and ww2 methods was a simple censorship of news. They didn’t release the actual numbers to the media. H1v1 flu pandemic that hit during ww1 got misnamed the Spanish flu since Spain was the only country to release close to real numbers so looked like they had a lot higher death rate ny a huge factor then the remainder of the world.