Disinformation (company)
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| Founded | September 13, 1996 |
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| 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 as Disinfo) was a
History
In 1996,
The founding team kept it going, being nominated for an award for politics in the
In addition to publishing books, the company also had a home video division as well as multimedia and Internet projects.
In 2000, Disinfo organized DisinfoCon, a 12-hour event featuring Richard Metzger, rock musician 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 alternatively titled as Disinfo 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
- 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
- Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius by Gary Lachman (2003)
- The Passover Plot: Special 40th Anniversary Edition by Hugh J. Schonfield (2005)
References
- ^ "Red Wheel Weiser Buys Disinformation Books". Publishers Weekly. June 5, 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ McNichol, Tom (November 13, 2003). "Peeking Behind the Curtain of Secrecy". The New York Times. Retrieved June 9, 2008.
- ^ ISBN 978-0810876941.
Disinfo company.
- ^ "The Real McCain". August 17, 2008. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
- ^ "Home". Mysite.
External links
- Official website
- Founder Info on the Internet Archive
- Disinfo Nation at IMDb
- Articles
- Peeking Behind the Curtain of Secrecy by The New York Times
- Truth is Stranger Than Science Fiction by New York Press
- DVD REVIEW: Film dissects government's lies en route to war in Iraq. by The America's Intelligence Wire
- The big lie lie: why a warning about "Disinformation" is itself a form of Disinformation by Skeptic
- Throw your cake by Red Herring
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