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false flag
[fawls flag]
noun
an attack or other hostile action that obscures the identity of the participants carrying out the action while implicating another group or nation as the perpetrator (often used attributively): The false flag terrorist attack lured the military into a hasty response.
Evidence suggests that the covert operation was a false flag.
The false flag terrorist attack lured the military into a hasty response.
a misrepresentation of affiliation or motivation or a false equivalence deliberately put forth to manipulate the context, perception, or frame of an action, object, or argument (often used attributively).
Public schools are losing tax dollars to private schools under the false flag of school vouchers expanding parental choice.
a flag flown to disguise the nationality or affiliation of a vessel, vehicle, or base of operations.
Surviving sailors reported that the privateer was flying a false flag on approach and attacked as soon as cannons were in range.
Word History and Origins
Origin of false flag1
Example Sentences
His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.
Even Alex Jones, who was infamously ordered by a court to pay for calling the Sandy Hook school shooting a false flag operation and accusing the dead children of being crisis actors, uploaded a video of himself distraught at the news of Kirk’s shooting and blinking away tears in his car.
Or rather, Cooper thought that it was a "false flag" attack staged on the anniversary of Waco to smear the militia movement.
Legality is a false flag, and it will not always protect us.
He secrets away a trove of incriminating documents about a nasty false flag operation and cover-up, which he uses as leverage to demand his own field training.
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When To Use
A false flag is intentional misrepresentation, especially a covert political or military operation carried out to appear as if it was undertaken by another party.
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