What exactly is Black Propaganda? And what are examples of this form of propaganda?
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Black propaganda is propaganda that pretends it originates from the target it actually intends to defame or discredit.
The most famous example in history is the *Protocols of the Elders of Zion*. It’s a pamphlet that *purports* to be the meeting notes of a council of wealthy Jews who are plotting world domination. No such council ever existed, it’s a forgery that was actually written by the intelligence service of the Russian Empire, as a piece of antisemitic propaganda, intended to stir up hatred against Jews.
Another example was fake US Army leaflets that Japan air-dropped over the Philippines during WW2 as the Americans were moving in to liberate the islands from Japanese occupation. They appeared to be pamphlets published *by* the US Army, warning their own troops that Filipino women were promiscuous and disease-ridden and to use protection when soliciting them for cheap prostitution. Japan’s goal here was to make the Filipinos think that the Americans looked down on them and intended to sexually exploit their women.
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