During the financial crisis some traders used it to spread rumors about potential bank failures.
Bullying behavior can include people who spread rumors about someone or make a person a regular target of gossip, researchers say.
The vice president and another top Chavez ally accused opposition leaders Thursday of organizing a campaign to spread rumors about the Venezuelan president's health.
Juvonen's study, however, found boys and girls spread rumors to boost their social status -- and that both genders use physical aggression to assert power.
Fear turned into panic over the past week as WordPress blog after WordPress blog fell into the hands of hackers and some observers spread rumors of a virus.
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He named an Inquirer reporter who he said spread false rumors about a Bulletin sale in the late 1970s.
In the Internet age, preparation starts with monitoring adversarial groups and blogs that might be inclined to dig up dirt or even spread false rumors.
But with the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 rumors spread of radioactive contamination of many Japanese products.
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The elderly farmer fears he will be ruined if rumors spread that it has contaminated his produce.
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In late 2012, rumors spread that Etihad was courting both Jet and Kingfisher Airlines, owned by Indian ex-billionaire Vijay Mallya.
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The company struggled to pay back the money it had borrowed for acquisitions, and rumors spread that it might become insolvent.
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In April, rumors spread that Gresik's new owners - whoever they might be - would lay off nearly half the plant's 3, 000 employees.
The survey was written by two newsmen, one a Muslim and the other a Christian, and detailed how unverified rumors spread and triggered unreasoning anger.
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In recent days, rumors spread on social networks and media sites on line saying that Coca-Cola China admitted in a TV program called Topics in Focus on the China Central Television network that its orange juice products contain a fungicide called Carbendazim.
" She said she thinks rumors have been spread "to divert attention from election results.
And a lot of the fast food restaurants are missing their employees because those rumors kind of spread very quickly, like fire.
Glen Cove Mayor Ralph Suozzi said parents had begun asking questions of the school board earlier this week, because rumors of an investigation had spread in the city of 27, 000.
To be fair, the latest iPad did not arrive in the nation until after rumors of the iPad Mini began to spread.
Despite the calumny spread about the Tea Party by left-leaning media the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
In particular, although companies typically want to eliminate negative rumors, they also want favorable reviews and facts to spread.
Today's instant dissemination of false rumors actually makes them less effective: The faster they spread to their targets, the faster they also spread to those who can disprove them.
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