During the financial crisis some traders used it to spread rumors about potential bank failures.
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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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.
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 particular, although companies typically want to eliminate negative rumors, they also want favorable reviews and facts to spread.
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.
" She said she thinks rumors have been spread "to divert attention from election results.
To be fair, the latest iPad did not arrive in the nation until after rumors of the iPad Mini began to spread.
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.
Rumors have abounded in Urumqi of recent syringe stabbers trying to spread AIDS and other diseases.
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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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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.
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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