British Propaganda

British officials worked carefully to win American support during WWI. They used propaganda; information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, or nation. Britain used propaganda to help themselves in order to harm the enemy, mainly Germany.
Britain cut the transatlantic telegraph cable from Europe to the United States, limiting news about the war mainly to the British reports. Stories arrived depicting numerous German war atrocities, including the charge that Germans used corpses from the battlefield to make fertilizers and soap.