Sentence examples for incorrect rumor from inspiring English sources
After reporting an incorrect rumor about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, Mr. Morgan is dispatched at a punitively early hour to Hackensack, N.J., to report on free prostate cancer screenings for poor men.
It shows the potential for one little irrelevant, largely incorrect rumor to spark this large explosion of media.
The report also indicates that the voter surge ahead of the Brexit vote could have been exacerbated by the spread of 'fake news' on Facebook — with the UK's Electoral Commission flagging up an incorrect rumor spread via Facebook during the Brexit referendum campaign which suggested voters needed to re-register in order to be able to vote.
(A spokesman for the Saudi Embassy denied the story, but largely declined to coöperate with fact-checking for the rest of the article, describing it as full of "old, incorrect rumors").
Incorrect rumors about some suspects didn't get in.
During production there were incorrect rumors that Avery Brooks would reprise his role as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine captain Benjamin Sisko.
Of the incorrect rumors, 6 were in China, 6 in Laos, 4 in Vietnam, 4 and in Hong Kong, 3 in Cambodia, 2 in Germany, and 1 each in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore.
She also pointed to the notice the MPA had felt moved to post on its website as a result of incorrect media rumors the company was in the all clear.
The term "fake news" has been applied to a wide variety of misleading information — factually incorrect reports, rumors, spin and everything else that exists for reasons beyond the intrinsic value in disseminating truth.
And this is why we instinctively find it odious when, for instance, we hear rumors (incorrect as it turns out) that a Hollywood hotshot gained admission to a once-in-a-lifetime same-sex marriage argument at the Supreme Court by paying someone to wait in line for him.
The average period to verify that a rumor was incorrect was 9.3 days (range 1 26 days).
