In this case, the spread of rumors quickly polarized both Uighur and Han communities.
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.
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.
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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But military leaders should recognize that the rumors spread far and fast in part because they were so believable.
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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.
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.
Despite the calumny spread about the Tea Party by left-leaning media the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
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He named an Inquirer reporter who he said spread false rumors about a Bulletin sale in the late 1970s.
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.
But with the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 rumors spread of radioactive contamination of many Japanese products.
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Chamoun, who opposes the March 8 alliance, said talk of Hezbollah's possible victory may be based on "rumors" and propaganda being spread by the Shiite militia and their political allies.
During the financial crisis some traders used it to spread rumors about potential bank failures.
The operation was successful, but rumors still spread through Egypt that Mubarak had died.
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The state media reported that two Uighurs were killed, but graphic pictures and rumors of a higher death toll spread quickly over the Internet to Xinjiang.
The elderly farmer fears he will be ruined if rumors spread that it has contaminated his produce.
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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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.
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.
And a lot of the fast food restaurants are missing their employees because those rumors kind of spread very quickly, like fire.
In April, rumors spread that Gresik's new owners - whoever they might be - would lay off nearly half the plant's 3, 000 employees.
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