And there a lot of them out there - twisting the truth on both sides in all kinds of issues. A lot of them work for governments, and are treated as reliable sources by people in the media.

The moral is that, while the internet puts us in touch with information it also puts us in touch with disinformation. But then that is not really any different from our situation when we read newspapers or watch TV, where the people controlling the media often have their own agenda.

With the Internet it's possible to dig around for ourselves, and check out the different sources. And, unlike journalists, we don't have to worry about whether the facts as they seem to fall are in line with the version expected from us by our employers.