smokescreen

You’ll understand preaching efficiency is a smokescreen for squeezing more blood and sweat out of working people.

“The panic button, the stuff with the consulates — it’s all a smokescreen to give the impression of doing something in response to Trump,” said Irineo Mujica, who heads the Pueblo Sin Fronteras rights group.

In some cases, however, the practice is being "exploited as a smokescreen to cruelly kill foxes and hares", a spokesperson for Defra added.

Some desert conservationists are critical of the efforts, saying the captive rearing program is essentially a smokescreen that distracts from the pressing need to conserve critical habitat.

It is intended to replicate hunting without killing animals, but critics claim it can be used as a "smokescreen" for the real thing.