An Evaluation of the Decision by World Athletics on Whether or Not to Ban the Nike Vapor Fly Racing Shoe in 2020 by Daniel Gracey, Thomas James O'Grady

“…Since October of 2019, World Athletics has been rumoured to be drafting legislation to limit specifications of racing shoes (Francis 2019) in order to mitigate any advantage the VaporFly may provide to athletes. …”
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Book Review: Radical Basque Nationalist-Irish Republican Relations. A History by Andreas Hess

“…There have been lots of rumours and some suspicion, and perhaps even more ideologically motivated propaganda, in relation to connections between the Basque militant organisation ETA (Euskadi ‘ta Askatasuna, Basque Country and Freedom) and the predominantly Northern Irish Provisional IRA (Irish Republican Army). …”
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JointBert for Detecting Arabic Fake News by Wesam Shishah

“…The rapid rise in the use of social media platforms has resulted in a recent surge of fake rumours, particularly among Arab countries. Such false information could potentially be detrimental to individuals and society. …”
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BLOODY “ALMAZ”: DE/CONSTRUCTION OF ONE REVOLUTION MYTH IN ODESA by Taras Vintskovskyi

“…As the result of the detention and physical liquidation of people of various categories on the cruiser and at moorings of other warships, thus spreading a variety of rumours, authorities of local self-government attempted to take control of the situation in order to make facts of self-trial impossible. …”
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Investigate the impact of media on public understanding of health and medical science in China by Yang Jianing

“…Media’s rapid spread can accelerate the spread of misinformation and rumours, causing panic and psychological distress among the public and harming individuals’ privacy and personal rights. …”
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«God save us from more revolutions»: the Aranjuez Mutiny and the Dos de Mayo uprising in the light of Count Fernán Núñez’s widow | «Dios nos libre de más revoluciones»: el Motín de... by Antonio Calvo Maturana

“…Thanks to this source we have access to the impressions of an eyewitness (a woman, something even more interesting and unusual) who was in constant relation with the current situation, gathering news and rumours, sometimes already obsolete in the next letter because of the frenetic political situation. …”
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Violence Against Frontline Healthcare Workers in India: A Growing Menace in COVID-19 Times by Seema Rizvi, Neeraj Sharma, Anoop Velayudhan, Daya Krishan Mangal

“…The current study identified three thematic areas: information deficit, mistrust in government actions, and socio-economic insecurities based on situational factors. False beliefs, rumours, lack of relief material, doubt in government actions, communication gap, and fear for life, land and livelihood were identified as situational factors. …”
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False news around COVID-19 circulated less on Sina Weibo than on Twitter. How to overcome false information? by Cristina Pulido Rodríguez, Beatriz Villarejo Carballido, Gisela Redondo-Sama, Mengna Guo, Mimar Ramis, Ramon Flecha

“… Since the Coronavirus health emergency was declared, many are the fake news that have circulated around this topic, including rumours, conspiracy theories and myths. According to the World Economic Forum, fake news is one of the threats in today's societies, since this type of information circulates fast and is often inaccurate and misleading. …”
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A dual benchmarking study of facial forgery and facial forensics by Minh Tam Pham, Thanh Trung Huynh, Thanh Tam Nguyen, Thanh Toan Nguyen, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Jun Jo, Hongzhi Yin, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

“…A wide range of malicious applications have emerged, such as deepfake, fake news, defamation or blackmailing of celebrities, impersonation of politicians in political warfare, and the spreading of rumours to attract views. As a result, a rich body of visual forensic techniques has been proposed in an attempt to stop this dangerous trend. …”
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Appeals in a pandemic : revisiting fear appeals and its effectiveness by Goh, Lynette Yi Ying, Lim, Jie Jun, Lim, Yi Zheng

“…Optimistically, this would serve to promote self-protective behaviours, dispel rumours and address emotional concerns present during a pandemic.…”
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Maqasid-based protection assessment model for user generated content / Sharifah Aliman by Aliman, Sharifah

“…Literature shows that the disseminated food-based UGC without a filtering phase as this may contain disinformation and misinformation that can lead to such risks as false rumours, deception, panic situations, loss of credibility and a loss of reputation. …”
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SOCIAL MEDIA BULLYING EXPERIENCES AND COPYING MECHANISMS AMONG THE SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH POPULATION by Anelisa A. Jadezweni, Emeka E. Obioha, Ishmael Mugari

“…Findings revealed that social media bullying mainly manifests through rude messages from fake accounts on social media accounts, as well as being called by nasty names such as loser and idiot; being heavily criticised for posts on social media platforms; false rumours on social media platforms; and sharing of sexually explicit pictures without the victims’ consent. …”
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All rants and no substance?: A new framework for studying the rationality of cyberspace by Carol Soon, Tan Tarn How

“…In Singapore where the government regulates traditional mainstream media such as print and broadcast, the online space has been described as a “Wild Wild West” rife with rumours, untruths and misinformation. Such developments do not only exert a potential negative effect on the deliberative nature of public discourse but also skew bias towards the online space, affecting the ability of online users to communicate with authority and power. …”
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Preserving home: resistance to cholera sanitation procedures in Egypt

“…People lied, eluded, spread rumours, persuaded others to lie, fled their homes and concealed family members. …”
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Un territoire de la dissuasion nucléaire: le plateau d’Albion by Monier Frédéric

“…Nuclear missiles were not welcome by all: anxiety and new popular culturesuch as rumours about UFO’stestify for the entering in a new age. …”
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Das Ende der Boden-Credit-Anstalt 1929 und die Rolle Rudolf Siegharts by Peter Eigner, Peter Melichar

“…Using these networks extensively, he became the target of many attacks and rumours. The story of the BCA impressively shows internal problems of monitoring and the lack of control. …”
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The Role of Nahdlatul Ulama in Strategizing Vaccine Communication during Covid-19 by Naura Safira Salsabila Zain, Haekal Adha Al Giffari, Abda Kamalia Putri

“…The issue of Covid-19 and its development always ignites the debate in Indonesia, including the vaccination process to minimize the virus risks. A plethora of rumours related to vaccination is spreading widely among Indonesian society which is more likely leading to adverse attitudes and behaviour of the people against vaccination. …”
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«Manchester calling» For what? by Ian Parker

“…Manchester’s ‘northern quarter’, an area targeted for regeneration – cheap hostels, clubs, old textile businesses and new cafe bars – was, on the Tuesday evening, rapidly shutting up shop. There had been rumours from late afternoon that Salford about a mile away had seen trouble, and restaurant owners round here were taking no chances. …”
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El comercio infame: capitalismo milenarista, valores humanos y justicia global en el tráfico de órganos by Nancy Scheper-hughes

“…The spread of new medical technologies and the new needs, scarcities, and commodities –for instance, fresh organs and tissues– that they inspire raises urgent public issues concerning: the reordering of relations between bodies and the state in late modernity; the appearance of “fluid” and divisible bodies that disrupt early modern notions of the indivisible and autonomous body-self; the emergence of new forms of barter and social exchange that breach the conventional dichotomy between gifts and commodities and between kin and strangers; the interplay of magic and science; and the power of rumours and urban legends to challenge the official medical and transplant “narratives” on the meanings of life, death, and sacrifice.…”
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Tropiąc fakty. "Parweniusz z rodowodem" Jarosława Górskiego by Dorota Karwacka-Pastor

“…Jarosław Górski deals with the black legend of the writer, rumours and sensational hearsay about his life, which has been spread for years and which, as the biographer proves, has not been confirmed by facts. …”
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