Disinformation (company)
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| Company type | Privatelimited |
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| Founded | September 13, 1996 |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Gary Baddeley, President / CEO Matt Staggs, Web content editor, podcast host |
| Products | Multimedia Publishing and Distribution |
| Website | disinfo |
The Disinformation Company(abbreviated asDisinfo) was aprivately held,limitedAmericanpublishing companyuntil 2012 when it was sold toRed Wheel/Weiser/Conari.[1]It also ownedDisinformation Books,which focused on current affairs titles and books exposing allegedconspiracy theories,occultism,politics, news oddities, and purporteddisinformation.It is headquartered inNew York City,New York. Arguably, its most visible publications to date are50 Things You're Not Supposed to Knowand theEverything You Know About [subject] Is Wrongseries, both by the company'seditor-at-largeRuss Kick.[2]
History[edit]
In 1996,Tele-Communications Inc.(nowComcast) funded aHollywood-based[citation needed]Internetinitiative responsible for online projects like theGetty Museumand an Internet-based political humor soap opera entitledCandidate 96.[citation needed]The initiative launched its own interactive website, featuring thetag line;"everything you know is wrong". Soon after the site's launch, TCI cancelled funding and support for the site.[3]
The founding team kept it going, being nominated for an award for politics in thefirst Webby Awards ceremony.The Disinformation Company, as it was now known, was then acquired byRazorfish.[3]Eventually, the Disinformation Company became privately held.
In addition to publishing books, the company also had a home video division as well as multimedia and Internet projects.
In 2000, Disinfo organizedDisinfoCon,a 12-hour event featuringRichard Metzger,rock musicianMarilyn Manson,underground filmmakerKenneth Anger,painterJoe Coleman,Douglas Rushkoff,Mark Pesce,Grant Morrison,Robert Anton Wilson,Todd Brendan Faheyand others.
In 2002, the company produced a four-episode documentary series calledDisinformation(also alternatively titled asDisinfo Nation).
In 2008, the Disinformation Company itself was accused of spreading propaganda (such as 9/11 "Truth" material) by Louis Proyect.[4]
As of June 17, 2020, the Disinfo.com website was inactive. While the Disinformation Company Ltd. was still listed as the owner, all content was deleted and the domain was for sale.[5]
Documentary films[edit]
- Disinformation: The Complete Series(2004)
- Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism(2004)
- Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War(2004)
- Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy(2004)
- Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price(2005)
- This Divided State(2005)
- Gay Republicans(2005)
- American Jobs(2005)
- Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers(2006)
- The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress(2006)
- 9/11: Press for Truth(2006)
- American Blackout(2006)
- Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement(2007)
- Let's All Hate Toronto:A Comic Adventure into Canada's Love/Hate Relationship with Itself(2007)
- War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death(2008)
- The Mindscape of Alan Moore(2008)
- Slacker Uprising(2008)
- New World Order(2009)
- RiP!: A Remix Manifesto(2009)
- Cargo 200(2009)
- Rethink Afghanistan(2009)
Books[edit]
- Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of AquariusbyGary Lachman(2003)
- The Passover Plot:Special 40th Anniversary EditionbyHugh J. Schonfield(2005)
References[edit]
- ^"Red Wheel Weiser Buys Disinformation Books".Publishers Weekly. June 5, 2012.Retrieved1 February2016.
- ^McNichol, Tom (November 13, 2003)."Peeking Behind the Curtain of Secrecy".The New York Times.RetrievedJune 9,2008.
- ^abBurden, Paul R (2010).A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites.Reprint. Scarecrow Press. p.473.ISBN978-0810876941.
Disinfo company.
- ^"The Real McCain".August 17, 2008.RetrievedJuly 4,2013.
- ^"Home".Mysite.
External links[edit]
- Articles
- Peeking Behind the Curtain of SecrecybyThe New York Times
- Truth is Stranger Than Science FictionbyNew York Press
- DVD REVIEW: Film dissects government's lies en route to war in Iraq.byThe America's Intelligence Wire
- The big lie lie: why a warning about "Disinformation" is itself a form of DisinformationbySkeptic
- Throw your cakebyRed Herring
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