"propagate rumors" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to spread or circulate rumors, often with the intention of causing harm or creating confusion. Example: The politician's opponents were quick to propagate rumors about his scandalous past, in an attempt to discredit him before the upcoming election.
In any event, I owe the judiciary respect, and I should have taken greater care to ensure that I did not propagate rumors that might lower a member of that body in the estimation of your readers.
Letting critics know that congress members are fallible people with limited information might make critics more receptive to alternative perspectives and more likely to hear corrections when they propagate rumors.
"I think it's evil for people to propagate rumors on the Internet to frighten children," Morrison said.
"It was either a broadcaster's mistake in North Korea, a mistake in transcription or translation, or a distortion by Yonhap, which is pretty well known for propagating rumors, especially by hard-line elements in South Korea," said Peter Hayes, director of the Nautilus Institute, a California-based nonprofit research organization for international security and conflict resolution.
Media consultant Dalal Saoud belives journalists today are handling rumors in a much worse fashion than a decade or two ago, with competing websites republishing unverified reports and social media propagating rumors and unfounded news.
But if you want to do this you should not propagate ridiculous rumors and make people think that these people are worthy of being killed or they are traitors or they have been trained abroad".
Welch had been inspired to act by the conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate, which propagated false rumors of a child sex ring operating out of the pizzeria, overseen by Democratic Party officials — rumors that circulated, in part, on YouTube.
Soon after the November 13 attacks, French daily Le Monde published advice on how to assess the credibility of sources and avoid propagating false rumors.
The Note also assessed the impact of its speculation about changes in the Kerry campaign, without acknowledging its own role in propagating the rumor and in contributing to the need for such a war room.
All of this propagates the rumor of a refresh coming next month.
It is possible to imagine an explosive situation being created as competing false rumors propagate in self-reinforcing loops among like-minded individuals.
