Folks, think about the last two months. Rethink assumptions. Misinformation is not just the problem of "other" people who believe, say, in aromatherapy for COVID-19. There are many kinds of misinformation. We had massive amounts of top-down misinformation from "credible" sources.
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) March 19, 2020
Fortunately, I ignore “credible” sources too. I am my own source. I understand that this cannot work for most people but it does for me. The problem is that in our society, experts are not really experts in all too many (perhaps most) cases these days. A great deal of them are out to hoodwink, deceive and defraud you because there are no consequences of this and loads of benefits.