Colin Granderson, chief of a team of election observers from the Organization of American States and the Caribbean Community, said in an interview on Saturday that he was unaware of fraudulent ballots and noted a tradition of rumormongering in Haiti around election time.
China says its online security policies are needed to fight pervasive fraud, cyberattacks, pornography and rumormongering.
Then he parceled out some of the blame to Mr. Tohti's Web site, Uighurbiz.net, a lively forum for debate — and a platform for rumormongering, according to the government — before it was blocked by the censors.
(That chain of events triggered the first rumormongering about her unfitness).
And so members of the state's Congressional delegation are not hesitating to act -- doing everything from hiring well-connected lobbyists to contributing to the campaign coffers of Albany leaders, and even, on occasion, indulging in a bit of rumormongering about their colleagues.
"I find it offensive to engage in a rumormongering campaign by giving a detailed response," he said at one point.
The hidden hands of speculators, profiting from bad-news rumormongering, good-news insidership and no-news accounting, made markets unsafe for ordinary investors.
In what the Securities and Exchange Commission said was its first rumormongering case, a former securities trader settled accusations Thursday that he had spread false rumors to profit from a pending merger.
"Dreamin' in Church" is a comic monologue, delivered from the pulpit of a black church by the Reverend Benson, who begins this carefully constructed piece with a warning against rumormongering -- there are gays in the church choir, it is said -- and mounts to his own joyous confession.
In the new news, every story can be outfitted with the same by-the-yard punditry and rumormongering -- and repeated at the same decibel level.
"It's just so far beyond any possibility that I don't think it's under any consideration at all, and I have not taken the time to look into it, because I think it's just people rumormongering," Ms. Clarke said.
