During the financial crisis some traders used it to spread rumors about potential bank failures.
Or would our cherished communications tools spread rumors of conspiracies and attacks and impending doom?
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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In this case, the spread of rumors quickly polarized both Uighur and Han communities.
He named an Inquirer reporter who he said spread false rumors about a Bulletin sale in the late 1970s.
They raised a series of false allegations based on twisted facts, and spread baseless rumors to manipulate market views on Qihoo 360.
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In part that's because propaganda authorities are under pressure to be proactive about reporting incidents in order to pre-empt the spread of rumors.
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.
But military leaders should recognize that the rumors spread far and fast in part because they were so believable.
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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.
Yet, somehow, Twitter rumors spread this morning shortly after the market opened that the Chinese Wall Street Journal was suggesting Muddy Waters was about to release a report targeting Sina next.
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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.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) Sectarian violence has spread to a new region of Myanmar, with a rampaging mob torching a mosque and a Muslim orphanage in a northeastern town after rumors spread that a Muslim man had set fire to a Buddhist woman, authorities said Wednesday.
The operation was successful, but rumors still spread through Egypt that Mubarak had died.
He added that since the violence, workers haven't been directly informed about the issue at all, allowing rumors to spread across the campus.
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Economic considerations are also coming into play -- it is significant that the initial rape rumors were spread by a Han Chinese angry that he lost his job in the factory where the Uighurs were working.
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