Sentence examples for rumor was spread from inspiring English sources

This despicable rumor was spread all day and night Thursday by the right-wing talking heads.

Along the way, a rumor was spread that they were surrounded and some frightened militiamen fled for Philadelphia.

As the mayor spoke recently, a rumor was spreading through town that fighting would resume across the border in a couple of hours.

A couple months ago, a rumor was spreading around that Thing Labs (makers of the Twitter/Facebook app Brizzly) was being acquired by Foursquare.

Usually, a rumor is spread, via text messages to strategic power players and then on social media.

In the Maki-Thompson (M-T) model, the rumor is spread by directed contact of the spreaders with other individuals.

Rumors are often mixtures of true and false messages, and there exists a competition between these two sides as the rumor is spread since people with a critical ability will separate the truth from the speculation when they spread the rumor, whilst those who are unable to use critical ability to test the truth of the rumors will pass on the rumor without judgment, often exacerbating the falseness.

As the rumor is spread, even if someone is 12 times removed from the initial source, they will stand behind it with as much authority as the initiator".

Consider a rumor being spread on the Internet concerning a top Obama aide, alleged to have made comments about how the administration knows who the enemies are, and will be getting even with them for opposing Obama's reelection.

If a false rumor is spread about you and you get asked about it, calmly deny it and move on, but don't lose your temper because that will only make things worse.

Usually, when a rumor is spreading, the government will take effective actions to control and remove the spreading users.