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Sat 11 Nov 2009Heard the one about the internet rumours?
People have always loved to gossip but, as a new book explains, thanks to the internet even the most rumours can spread at an incredible speed, writes BRIAN O’CONNELL
DEPENDING ON who you choose to believe, reports on the internet in the past few weeks had it that Kanye West died in a car crash, placing sliced onions around your home can prevent swine flu, and mythical Latin American creatures with forked tongues, large fangs and sharp spines were seen in videos and photo documents. You just couldn’t make it up.
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