Whitewashing is one of the most basic forms of propaganda; it consists in cleaning the reputation of people/groups that support mainstream goals in order to prevent people from distrusting or turning away from them. Whenever someone comes up with something that might help promote the elites' plans and/or the mainstream narrative, it is made sure that any compromising information there might be about him/them is accurately removed from public knowledge, carefully avoiding mentioning any wrong deed, claims he might have made, no matter how grave, and covering any connection to dubious organizations he might have had.