This age have two seemingly contradictory to each other: on the one hand, along with the people affected by the improvement of education level and the diversity of channels of access to information, people can make a more sober rational judgment of all sorts of rumors, but on the other hand, the explosive growth of information and technology progress also make rumors spread speed greatly accelerated, people often can not afford time to distinguish true and false of various kinds of information  It has always been assumed that increasing human rationality and transparency would eliminate the breeding ground for rumours, but so far this has been an ideal  The information disseminated by people in no society is completely correct
In many cases, people often spread rumors unconsciously in order to get the truth they care about as soon as possible
The growth of information and technological progress are the main sources of rumors