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The Internet is regulated heavily, by the way: The equivalent of trespass is forbidden. You can't libel people on the Internet.
But you can repeatedly and vehemently claim a person spent $200,000 on full body cosmetic surgery without having a single original verifiable source for the story.
On the Internet, having a "verifiable source" for a story like that just means the rumor was printed on someone else's web page.
You link to that page and voila! You've verified the story.
We now have thousands of pseudo-journalists in our country who have never taken a course on journalistic ethics and probably never will.
