Disinfo.com
Started: 13 September 1996
Owners: Gary Baddeley, Ralph Bernardo, Matt Staggs
In its own words:
"Disinfo.com, our web portal, aggregates tens of thousands of the most shocking, unusual and quirkiest news articles, podcast episodes, and videos on the web, most of which are submitted by the site’s visitors. The site also includes original free content, including the Disinformation Podcasts as well as a deep archive of articles and editorials written in the early days of the site. Whether it’s text, audio or video, if it’s offbeat or unconventional, you’ll probably find it here."
Members: Alex Burns, Jasun Horsley, Thad McKraken, Abby Martin
Disinfo.com was one of the earliest websites on the Internet that covered a whole range of "conspiracy theories". It organized the Disinfo.Con in 2000.[1][2]
The website published until 2018;[3][4] Thad McKraken who maintained the website spoke in several interviews about the factors that lead to it's end.[5][6][7]
911
- Full article: 9-11
- Full article: 9-11
In an article on Substack Alex Burns describes that: "Metzger, Baddeley and I all agreed on was that we would not promote conspiracy theories".[8]
Known member
1 of the 4 of the members already have pages here:
Member | Description |
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Abby Martin | Abby Martin beautiful journalist with a beautiful heart and mind with George Galloway, another strong voice for the voiceless. Hats off to you both for working so hard against injustice.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> |
References
- ↑ http://archive.today/2022.09.14-230744/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_(company)
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180706030057/http://www.remyc.com/disinfo2000.html
- ↑ http://archive.today/2022.09.14-231450/https://twitter.com/Disinfo
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/occult/comments/9brq46/disinfocom_shut_down_permanently/
- ↑ In McKraken's view, the owner wanted to retire -the website was costing but had no viable revenue stream- management was given to AboveTopSecret for a time who entered custom Wordpresss code, there was an attempt to steal the site and it was harassed by a copyright troll
- ↑ https://www.spreaker.com/user/9808787/thaddisinfo
- ↑ https://player.fm/series/the-nick-margerrison-podcast-19413/ep-0013-interview-thad-mckraken
- ↑ https://alexburns.substack.com/p/september-11-20