Disinfopedia

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is an organization that describes itself as a media research group and was founded in 1993 by environmentalist writer and political activist John Stauber. It publishes PR Watch, edited by Sheldon Rampton, and has published several books describing what it calls the murky world of public relations.

Concerning liberal implications in their work, Stauber and Rampton state on their CMD website that they are not affiliated with a political party, but admit they do not pretend to lack opinions or a point of view.

Disinfopedia

The Disinfopedia website, a WikiWiki based on the MediaWiki software, is a CMD project which states its purpose as providing a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.

Disinfopedia was started on 15 January 2003 and publicly launched on 10 March 2003. The directory launched with approximately 200 articles, and as of July 2004 it has over 5000 articles. It is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.