The Disinformation Company is a privately held American publishing company that specializes in current affairs titles that seek to expose
disinformationDisinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. It is synonymous with and sometimes called Black propaganda. It may include the distribution of forged documents, manuscripts, and photographs, or spreading malicious rumors and fabricated intelligence...
. 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 KickRuss Kick is an American editor and publisher. He is editor of the website The Memory Hole which publishes and archives hidden U.S. government documents, including scientific studies and reports, civil rights-related reports, intelligence and covert action reports, consumer safety reports, and...
.
In 1996,
Tele-Communications Inc.Tele-Communications, Inc. or TCI was a cable television provider in the United States, for much of its history controlled by John Malone.The company came into being in 1968, following the merger of Western Microwave, Inc. and Community Television, Inc...
(now
ComcastComcast Corporation , founded in 1963, is the largest cable operator in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers. Comcast is headquartered in the One Comcast Center in Center City, Philadelphia,...
) 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 .
The Disinformation Company is a privately held American publishing company that specializes in current affairs titles that seek to expose
disinformationDisinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. It is synonymous with and sometimes called Black propaganda. It may include the distribution of forged documents, manuscripts, and photographs, or spreading malicious rumors and fabricated intelligence...
. 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 KickRuss Kick is an American editor and publisher. He is editor of the website The Memory Hole which publishes and archives hidden U.S. government documents, including scientific studies and reports, civil rights-related reports, intelligence and covert action reports, consumer safety reports, and...
.
History
In 1996,
Tele-Communications Inc.Tele-Communications, Inc. or TCI was a cable television provider in the United States, for much of its history controlled by John Malone.The company came into being in 1968, following the merger of Western Microwave, Inc. and Community Television, Inc...
(now
ComcastComcast Corporation , founded in 1963, is the largest cable operator in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers. Comcast is headquartered in the One Comcast Center in Center City, Philadelphia,...
) 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 . 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.
The founding team kept it going, winning an award for politics in the first
Webby AwardsThe Webby Awards is an international paid-entry-exclusive award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites, presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences since 1996...
ceremony. The Disinformation Company, as it was now known, was then acquired by
RazorfishRazorfish Inc. is one of the world's largest interactive agencies and one of the largest buyers of digital advertising space. Razorfish provides services to its clients in the areas of digital advertising and content creation, media buying, strategic counsel, analytics, technology and user...
. 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 MetzgerRichard Metzger is a British television host and author. He was the host of the TV show Disinformation, The Disinformation Company and its website, Disinfo.com...
, shock rocker
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, underground filmmaker
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, painter
Joe ColemanJoe Coleman may refer to:*Joe Coleman , American Major League Baseball pitcher*Joe Coleman , American Major League Baseball pitcher...
,
Douglas RushkoffDouglas Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to societal problems.Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media...
,
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,
Grant MorrisonGrant Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. He is best-known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings.-Early years:...
,
Robert Anton WilsonRobert Anton Wilson became, at various times, an American novelist, essayist, philosopher, polymath, psychonaut, futurist, libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic...
, 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).
Works
- Above Top Secret
- The Cult Of The Suicide Bomber 2 - Insider the Hidden World of Women and Western Suicide Bombers, 2008
- Outfoxed
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism is a 2004 documentary film by filmmaker Robert Greenwald that criticises the Fox News Channel, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, claiming that the channel is used to promote and advocate right-wing views...
- Rupert MurdochKeith Rupert Murdoch, AC , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born American global media mogul. He owns media outlets and is a major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation ....
's War on Journalism, 2004
- Endgame - Blueprint for Global Enslavement
- Islam: What the West Needs to Know
Islam: What the West Needs to Know is a documentary film produced by Quixotic Media. According to the producers, the film is an examination of Islam and its violence towards non-Muslims....
- War Made Easy - How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death is an American anti-war documentary film that was produced and released in 2007.-External links:**...
- Let's All Hate Toronto
Let's All Hate Toronto is a 2007 Canadian documentary film co-directed by independent documentarian Albert Nerenberg and Robert Spence. The documentary is a comedic examination of the reasons why everyone in Canada seems to hate Toronto...
- A Comic Adventure Into Canada's Love/Hate Relationship With itself
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