A fake announcement of the pope's death by the Vatican's number two, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, was followed by reports in another false feed of the death of Pedro Almodóvar, prompting a tweet from the Guardian's world account saying that the rumour was being looked into.
The focus on false accusations feeds into the culture of fear that intimidates victims from reporting rape.
She suggested the 300-page document detailing Mr Nisman's allegations had been the product of false information fed to him by the SI.
Secondly, we can imagine situations in which false information feeds into an existing world view, making it harder for corrections to penetrate.
One lesson of the months leading up to May's debacle is that Labour must absorb feedback, even unwelcome feedback, and not live in denial, fostering false hope fed by opinion polls.
A combination of rumour and false information fed their hope that he was still alive, lost in the gulag, even until the revolution of 2011, when the gates of Abu Salim were broken open and dozens of men stumbled, blinking, into the light of freedom.
Consider all those civilian deaths and injuries, so often the result of false information fed to Americans to entice them to settle local scores.
All of that energy, the money spent on a recount, the false hope fed to us by our "progressive leadership", all it did was succeed in us taking our eye off of what really matters: fights that could actually still be won.
Malcolm Gladwell's review of "Operation Mincemeat" is a delightful rumination on the pitfalls and dubious utility of feeding false intelligence to an enemy (A Critic at Large, May 10th).
The Canadian inquiry found that the Mounted Police set off events in the United States by feeding false claims about Mr. Arar to the United States government.
