These days, a lot of rumors are flying around on mobile phone text messages, e-mails and social media. Such messages pose a major threat – among many – to the country's security, because they make many citizens suffer sleepless, panic-filled nights.

Some rumors can jeopardize lives. The clashes that erupted recently between Muslims and Christians in Cairo. Which left thirteen people dead and many more injured, started with a rumor spread by a microbus driver who wrongly claimed that some Christian youths were planning to torch a mosque.