Disinfo
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| Disinformation Company | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | September 13, 1996 |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, USA |
| Key people | Gary Baddeley, President / CEO Ralph Bernardo, Managing Editor / COO Russ Kick, Editor-at-large |
| Products | Multimedia Publishing and Distribution |
| Website | disinfo.com |
The Disinformation Company is a privately held American publishing company that specializes in current affairs titles that seek to expose disinformation. It is headquartered in New York City, New York. Arguably, its most visible publications to date are 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know and the Everything You Know About (subject) is Wrong series, both by the company's editor-at-large Russ Kick[1].
[edit] History
In 1996, Tele-Communications Inc. (now Comcast) funded a Hollywood-based internet initiative responsible for online projects like the Getty Museum and an internet-based political humor soap opera entitled Candidate 96[citation needed]. The initiative launched its own interactive website, featuring the tag line; "everything you know is wrong". Soon after site's launch, TCI cancelled funding and support for the site[citation needed].
The founding team kept it going, winning an award for politics in the first Webby Awards ceremony[citation needed]. The Disinformation Company, as it was now known, was was then acquired by Razorfish. Eventually, the Disinformation Company became privately held.
In addition to publishing books, the company also has a home video division as well as multimedia/internet projects.
In 2000, Disinfo organized DisinfoCon, a 12 hour event featuring Richard Metzger, shock rocker Marilyn Manson, underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, painter Joe Coleman, Douglas Rushkoff, Mark Pesce, Grant Morrison, Robert Anton Wilson, Todd Brendan Fahey and others.
In 2002, the company produced a four-episode documentary series called Disinformation (also known by an alternate title, Disinfo Nation).
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[edit] External links
- The big lie lie: why a warning about "Disinformation" is itself a form of Disinformation, Skeptic
- Throw your cake, Red Herring
- DVD REVIEW: Film dissects government's lies en route to war in Iraq., The America's Intelligence Wire
- Everything You Know Is Wrong: An Evening with the Disinformation Company, Village Voice
- Peeking Behind the Curtain of Secrecy, New York Times
- Disinformation dishes more docs, Video Business
- Truth is Stranger Than Science Fiction, New York Press
- Official website
- Founder Info on Archive.org
- Disinformation (aka Disinfo Nation) at the Internet Movie Database
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