David Dunning, from Cornell University, warns that the internet
is helping propagate ignorance -- it is a place where everyone has a
chance to be their own expert, he says, which makes them prey for
powerful interests wishing to deliberately spread ignorance.
--David Dunning quoted by
Georgina Kenyon. "The man who studies the spread of ignorance"
BBC (6 January 2016).
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160105-the-man-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance