Digital wildfires: propagation, verification, regulation, and responsible innovation by Webb, H, Burnap, P, Procter, R, Rana, O, Stahl, BC, Williams, M, Housley, W, Edwards, A, Jirotka, M

“…Whilst this produces undoubted societal benefits, the ability for content to be spontaneously posted and reposted creates an ideal environment for rumour and false/malicious information to spread rapidly. …”

Measles outbreak investigation in a remote area of Solomon Islands, 2014 by Jason Diau, Christopher Jimuru, James Asugeni, Lyndell Asugeni, Mike Puia, John Maomatekwa, Humpress Harrington, David MacLaren, Rick Speare, Peter D Massey

“…Methods: Epidemiological review of cases who presented to the Atoifi Adventist Hospital (AAH) during the outbreak period from July to December 2014. Rumour surveillance was used to gather information on unreported cases. …”
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Digital Wildfire project Delphi panel on the responsible governance of social media by Webb, H

“…As part of this we ran a Delphi panel exercise to the solicit the informed opinion of relevant stakeholders on the appropriate steps needed to regulate social media in order to prevent or limit the spread of harmful content such as hate speech, malicious campaigns and rumour. The Delphi panel consisted of three rounds - with each round of questions sent to the same participants. …”

Event-based surveillance in north-western Ethiopia: experience and lessons learnt in the field by Yumi Toyama, Masaki Ota, Belay Bezabih Beyene

“…This study piloted an event-based surveillance system at the health centre (HC) level in Ethiopia. The system collects rumours in the community and registers them in rumour logbooks to record events of disease outbreaks and public health emergencies. …”
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A severe diarrhoeal outbreak in a remote Pacific island community, Anuta Island, Solomon Islands, April-June 2019 by Adam Craig, Samuel Manu, Rolly Viga, Cynthia Joshua, Jane Saepioh, Alison Sio

“…Issue: In May 2019, the national surveillance system detected a rumour of a severe diarrhoea outbreak in a very remote and isolated community on Anuta Island, located halfway between the Solomon Islands archipelago and Tuvalu. …”
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Public opinion and seditious language from the Wars of the Roses to the Pilgrimage of Grace, c.1461-1537 by Corrêa, W

“…Overall, this thesis argues that the continuities in how people criticised and reacted to crises throughout the period partly explain the peaks in records of complaint and rumour as well as provide significant insights into how government policy was more frequently reactive than proactive.…”

Controlling of Fake Information Dissemination in Online Social Networks: An Epidemiological Approach by Rudra Pratap Ojha, Pramod Kumar Srivastava, Shashank Awasthi, Vineet Srivastava, Purnendu Shekhar Pandey, Radhe Shyam Dwivedi, Rajesh Singh, Antonino Galletta

“…The misinformation may be a type of fake news or rumour. This is very difficult for people to differentiate whether the posts are information or rumour. …”
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Higher Education Policies in the European Union, the ‘Knowledge Economy’ and Neo-Liberalism. by Chris Lorenz

“…To all appearances higher education in both the Eu and the Us has turned into a more fashionable topic for politicians and journalists than it was ten years ago. Since rumour has it that in the ‘age of globalisation’ we are living in a ‘knowledge society’ and that our economies are basically ‘knowledge economies,’ higher education has attracted more public attention than it did before. …”
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Metternich and the Italian League Myth in 1833 by Miroslav Šedivý

“…Based upon the thorough research of primary archival as well as published sources and scholar literature, the article deals with the rumour of Metternich’s alleged project for an Italian league in 1833, revealing the falsity of this imputation and proving that even if such a project actually existed at that time, not the Austrian chancellor but the king of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand II, was its author.…”
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Comment s’en sortir dans les « sous-quartiers » de Yaoundé ? by Jean Vermot-Gaud

“…These are areas of sociability, discussion, theatre, delusion, rumour, desire, frustration, dehumanizing survival, areas of power, violence, chaos, danger, tragedy, where genocide can happen. …”
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Paradoxophilia by Philipp Sahm

“…Needless to say, it is not particularly easy to decipher what these rumours may mean. To say the least, the combining of law with paradoxes has led to some rather obscure results.…”
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La grande enfance by Jean-François Dupeyron

“…Thus, this representation provides today a real ‘scholarly rumour’ about the discovery of the childhood during the occidental modernity and constitutes the hard core of a paradigm. …”
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L’enquête au sens pragmatiste et ses conséquences by Isaac Joseph

“…Some of his favourite themes are to be found here: the community of explorers who, in co-constructing public reason through survey and experiment, become the community of believers; vulnerable audiences who, facing the risk of imposture, of phoney news, of practical jokes and rumour, are like the ‘suckers’ gulled by the card-sharp playing Bonneteau as described by Goffman. …”
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Le public et le privé dans Mesure pour Mesure by Michèle Vignaux

“…Through such questions as the topos of seeming vs. being, the conflicts between secret spousals and marriage, the importance of reputation as a condition of the reliability of witnesses and its vulnerability to rumour and slander, or even through the “mysteries” of trade guilds, the relationships between public and private life lie at the heart of Measure for Measure. …”
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Emotion and satisfaction in the philosophy of F.H.Bradley by Mander, W

“…The philosophers of the self-styled ‘revolution in philosophy’ that went on to become the contemporary analytic tradition started a rumour about the British Idealists that has persisted to this day. …”

Irreverenter dicta: la oposición a Agustín en los jesuitas españoles (1644) by Jean-Robert Armogathe

“…While attesting the importance of the debates around Augustine’s heritage, the paper gives a fairly detailed account of the way a rumour could spread in 17th century Europe.…”
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«Así empieza lo malo» de Javier Marías: rumor y fama, entre William Shakespeare y Geoffrey Chaucer by Antonio CANDELORO

“…In this article we will analyse other sources that will help us to study this novel from the «Rumour» and «Fame» concept’s point of view (both of Virgilian origin and re-elaborated by Geoffrey Chaucer). …”
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Humanitarian Communication in a Post-Truth World by Mel Bunce

“…This includes everything from rumour and exaggeration to partisan journalism and completely invented stories designed to look like real news (so-called ‘fake news’). …”

The tolerance threshold. Cultivation of tobacco, tumors and risk management in the Upper Tiber Valley by Lorenzo Alunni

“…This article focuses on the genealogy, the political management and the effects of this “rumour”. Taking into consideration local business, political and healthcare management, this paper analyses the elements determining the moral economy of the “tolerance threshold” about the supposed link between tobacco farming and oncological incidence. …”
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EVALUATING VOLTALITY PERSISTENCE OF STOCK RETURTN IN THE PRE AND POST 2008-2009 FINANCIAL MELTDOWN by Kamaldeen Ibraheem Nageri

“…The study recommend the need to strictly monitor, restrict and regulate desperately optimistic noise (rumour) traders (investors) in the market, shorting to make money.…”
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