[t]he argument instead relates to the reliability of the source: because an informant is right about some things, he is more probably right about other facts, usually the critical, unverified facts.
Written by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, the document claims that the F.B.I. used unverified information and withheld key facts when it obtained permission from the FISA court for the surveillance of the Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page.
Historically, social contagion, through uncritical acceptance of rumours, unverified information and persecutory interpretations of facts, has often unleashed acts of irrational mass behaviours, at times extremely cruel and violent (Mackay, 2008); however, it is difficult to fully explain these riots as the effect of social contagion.
Given this subtle response, the only recent availability of a deletion collection for S. pombe[ 40], and the fact that Pho7 function was unverified until recently, it is not surprising that the more general role for Pho7 has not been previously observed.
The first concerns the subtle notion of trustworthiness of information, ranging from verified facts [12], to rumors and exaggerated, biased, unverified or fabricated news [4, 7, 13].
Much of the dispute in February over the surveillance of Mr. Page centered on the fact that the F.B.I.'s court application included unverified information it had obtained from Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent who had been hired to research Mr. Trump's ties to Russia by a firm that was in turn being financed by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign.
In fact, the report specifically cautions investors against acting on unverified information.
Some celebrities were also quick to spread unverified claims before police had offered any official confirmation of the basic facts of the shooting.
The facts weren't there, nor was I willing any longer to use innuendo and unverified charges to spice up my material, which I had done in the past.
This quick spread indicates one of the problems with the 24/7, fast-paced news cycle – that sometimes unverified stories get picked up and passed around the web, even when no one has done much (or any) fact-checking of the rumor's claims.
The account is unverified.
