Gossip is cheap to speak and expensive to take back.

A sentence about someone takes two seconds and then belongs to everybody. It gets repeated with your name attached, arrives eventually at the person, and no correction ever travels as far as the original. The reward is real, because sharing makes you feel briefly inside the group. What it actually teaches the group is what you do with information.

Notice the pull this week and hold one thing you were about to pass on. If it is not yours to tell, let it stop with you.