| 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. The term privately held company refers to ownership of a business company in two different ways first referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations and second The City of New York New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Russ Kick (born 1969 is editor of the website The Memory Hole which publishes and archives hidden US government documents including scientific studies and reports In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Disinformation is the deliberate dissemination of false Information. 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]. An Editor-at-Large is a Journalist who contributes content to a publication Russ Kick (born 1969 is editor of the website The Memory Hole which publishes and archives hidden US government documents including scientific studies and reports
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. Tele-Communications Inc or TCI was a Cable television provider in the United States, for much of its history controlled by John Malone. Comcast Corporation ( is the largest Cable television company the second largest Internet service provider and (according to the company the fourth largest telephone The Getty Center in Brentwood Los Angeles California, USA, is the current home of part of the J The initiative launched its own interactive website, featuring the tag line; "everything you know is wrong". A tagline is a variant of a branding slogan typically used in Marketing materials and Advertising. Soon after site's launch, TCI cancelled funding and support for the site.
The founding team kept it going, winning an award for politics in the first Webby Awards ceremony. The Disinformation Company, as it was now known, was was then acquired by Razorfish. Avenue A | Razorfish Inc is one of the world's largest interactive agencies and is an operating unit of Seattle-based AQuantive, a wholly owned subsidiary of 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. Richard Metzger (born October 25, 1965 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a British television host and author Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969) better known by his Stage name Marilyn Manson, is an American Musician and Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927) is an American underground avant-garde film-maker Joe Coleman may refer to Joe Coleman (1950s pitcher (1922&ndash1997 American Major League Baseball pitcher Joe Coleman (1970s pitcher Douglas Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is a New York -based writer columnist and lecturer on technology Mark Pesce, ( December 8, 1962, in Everett Massachusetts) (ˈpɛʃi one of the early pioneers in Virtual Reality is a writer researcher Grant Morrison (born January 31 1960 is a Scottish Comic book writer and artist Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 &ndash January 11, 2007) was an American
In 2002, the company produced a four-episode documentary series called Disinformation (also known by an alternate title, Disinfo Nation).
Notes
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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