The information and misinformation superhighway. Ted Pinkowitz is the president of E-Central, an Internet provider service in Denver. There are over 20,000 news groups. A news group is a bulletin board area where people can post messages, post ideas, post questions. And then people respond to that.
Many Internet users have address books which can contain hundreds of names.
They can be used to send electronic messages to large numbers of people with a single click of a mouse. Another way misinformation can be distributed is on a web page. Virtually anyone can set up a web site to spread their own ideas and conspiracy sites abound. The topics range from O. J. Simpson to the Oklahoma City bombing, to the Kennedy assassination. Never before has that ability been available.