Sentence examples for media rumours from inspiring English sources

Persistent media rumours – finally denounced yesterday as false – claimed that Jean Sarkozy intended to convert to Judaism before his marriage.

We hadn't, but with social media, rumours get everywhere, and one of those rumours was that Prince was coming.

In her last months, amid media rumours that she had died, she was quoted as saying: "Even in my death, I'm making people busy".

Vanity Fair first put out a request when media rumours started surfacing that Jenner had undergone surgery to remove his Adam's apple last February.

The former Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan has issued a statement to deny media rumours linking him to the alleged ritual sacrifice of his friend, the Ghanaian rapper Castro.

Bach refused to comment on "media rumours" about rowing's possible switch to South Korea, but said the IOC was willing to work with Koike to reduce spiralling costs.

But throughout the 10 days Putin's disappearance was treated as a joke, with a Kremlin spokesman suggesting the award of a prize for best media rumour.

The social media rumour mill went into overdrive when fans of the comedian, who has died (according to Twitter) a mammoth eight times previously, tweeted that the star had been killed in a freak snowboarding accident.

The chaos wrought by the social media rumour mill, exacerbated by prominent journalists who re-circulated the misinformation early Friday morning, came at the end of a tumultuous week for both established news organizations and the social media sites that are altering the dynamics of newsgathering.

Its approach was a carefully calibrated command-and-control use of social media with a selective sharing of timely factual information to counter media rumour, re-assure the public, and protect the location of investigating officers in a fast-moving and unpredictable environment.

Kilmarnock manager Gary Locke has dismissed the social media rumour mill and expressed his determination to improve his side's form.