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From the article: Daniel Peterson, an Arabic professor at Brigham Young University and a noted Mormon apologist, said this increased access has caused church members to stumble upon anti-Mormon material more than ever would otherwise. These increasingly frequent run-ins, he said, are changing church members' attitudes toward criticisms of its history and doctrine. "It's going to force us to up our game..." Peterson said. This cultural shift within the church, and perhaps the necessity for such a shift, was highlighted in a New York Times front-page story from July 21. The article, titled "Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt," profiled Swedish Mormon Hans Mattsson, an emeritus Area Authority who has gone public about his doubts, and his criticism of how prominent church leaders deal with such criticisms. "I felt like I had an earthquake under my feet," Mattsson shared in the article. "Everything I'd been taught, everything I'd been proud to preach about and witness about just crumbled under my feet. It was such a terrible psychological and nearly physical disturbance."

Here's the NY Times article: Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt

Here's the FR discussion from someone posting that article: Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt [See post #50 for two additional FR links which previously discussed the apostasy going on among Mormons in Sweden...prior to the Times highlighting it]

Danial Peterson is a sloppy researcher at best, his claim on horses in the new world having no evidence and equivalencing it with the lack of evidence of Hun horses shows that there COULD have been horses in the new world is a good example.

(took almost 2 min on web to find proof of Hun Horses)

The more people outside the church learned about Mormonism, the harder it became to be Mormon. When people were ignorant, you could make the church seem mainstream by skipping over all the weird stuff.