The spectacle of Welch's attack and arrest fuelled further concerns over fake news and malicious content, which had already gripped commentators in the latter days of the Presidential election.
The combination of mobile and social media has increased the speed with which both genuine news and malicious gossip can spread around the world.
Adding insult to injury, he sends his servant, Laurent Nathan Keeperss -- looking like a malicious Alan Cumming), to deliver news of the family's eviction.
In the static-filled bedlam of viral e-mails, cable-news square-offs, mangled media clips, fake-news Web sites, political ads, and malicious rumors, with a new lie popping up somewhere every hour, the Obama campaign faces the nearly impossible task of putting out stories before they spread across a political landscape that is often dry tinder for them.
Rajab has also been charged with "defaming the state" by publishing "false news... and malicious rumours that undermine the prestige of the kingdom" following the publication of an article by him on the op-ed page of the New York Times.
Not when anniversaries and appeals came and went without any news, nor when malicious rumours about the girls reached their ears.
Not only is it malicious to single out a news reporter in this way, MacKenzie's abhorrent rant attempts to equate Manji's headscarf to terrorist atrocities and to female slavery: "Was it done to stick one in the eye of the ordinary viewer who looks at the hijab as a sign of the slavery of Muslim women by a male-dominated and clearly violent religion?" he spouted.
Today, we have Fox & Friends treating all sorts of malicious nonsense as serious, factual news.
Given that increasing numbers of people get their information through social media, it makes sense that those companies should at least take some responsibility in weeding out deliberately false, misleading, or otherwise malicious posts masquerading as reputable news.
gen. of the Tass news agency, too, saw malicious propaganda by "the mass media" as responsible for the President's downfall.
