At a company I worked for thirty-plus years ago, approximately 1000 employees, a couple of us guys in my department wanted to see how fast a rumor could spread within the company.
So we came up with a plan: Start a ‘rumor’, fake of course, that there was a UNION ORGANIZER attempting to start an employee union, without naming the person and see how long it would take for the rumor to get back to us.
Now, this company was spread out over 4 large buildings, some miles apart, and we had access to all of them because of our jobs.
We started the ‘rumor’ in all buildings and it did not take but less than a day to get the feedback we sought.
The ONE THING WE DID NOT COUNT ON, WAS THAT THE ‘RUMOR’ WE SPREAD WAS ACTUALLY TRUE!
About mid afternoon of the day we started the rumor, a co-worker, same department as us but different workgroup, came into our lab and he was manic, to say the least.
He told us he was a union organizer and was attempting to start a union at our company and the news had spread like wildfire around the company! He could not understand how it had happened so fast! To this day he has no idea what we did.......
Anyways, the union never did get started, even though they held meetings at a local hotel and people attended, from all buildings, but no one was interested enough to start the proceedings to get them into the voting stages.............
At a company I worked for thirty-plus years ago, approximately 1000 employees, a couple of us guys in my department wanted to see how fast a rumor could spread within the company.
You might have an opportunity at Fox.
But it does sound like a fun and interesting hobby. I will partake and report back.