Dr. Borland has heard many stories about interviewers who make rude remarks, use obscenities or spread malicious rumors about others in the same industry.
"Hu spread malicious rumors and committed libel in an attempt to subvert the state's political power and socialist system," stated the April 2008 court verdict against him, as quoted by the state-run Xinhua news service.
For good reason, New York City Councilman Peter Vallone is considering criminal charges against Hurricane Sandy prankster Shashank Tripathi who spread malicious rumors about power outages over Twitter (under the handle, @ComfortablySmug).
Unstable Claire Brownlee, whose detective husband knows everybody's secrets, spreads malicious rumors about Gay because Gay, ducking out of a party to meet Denny, forgot she had promised to talk to Claire first.
In April, human rights activist Hu Jia was sentenced to 3 1/2 years after a court found that he "spread malicious rumors and committed libel," and this month a man in the eastern province of Jiangsu was jailed for claiming online that he planned to grab the Olympic torch during its relay, which drew protests around the world.
The report is that all the rival car dealers in town have banded together and spread malicious rumor that the new Chrysler resemble a turtle.
There will be lots of gossip and lots of people spreading malicious (really mean) rumors.
She felt estranged from vapid figures, including a lady-in-waiting who spread "malicious, unfounded rumors" about her.
She felt estranged from vapid figures, including a lady-in-waiting who spread "malicious, unfounded rumors" about her. "I cannot be bothered to discuss matters in front of those women who continually carp and are so full of themselves: it would only cause trouble," she writes.
It's the original virtual vector for spreading malicious code.
