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summary_fact_check [2016/12/14 23:08] – [Commercial Studio] adds infographic Carlos Pedrazasummary_fact_check [2017/01/10 13:40] – [Disinformation] Carlos Pedraza
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 [{{ :twisted-path-4.jpg?nolink&300|**CONVOLUTED CONNECTIONS** revealed in AxaMonitor's investigation of Axanar's "Industry Studios" and a web of [[industry_studios|multi-state companies]].}}] [{{ :twisted-path-4.jpg?nolink&300|**CONVOLUTED CONNECTIONS** revealed in AxaMonitor's investigation of Axanar's "Industry Studios" and a web of [[industry_studios|multi-state companies]].}}]
  
-Our investigation of the company supposedly operating the studio revealed a [[industry_studios|tangled web]] of shell companies stretching between California and Georgia, all represented by [[industry_studios#the_peters_connection|Peters' personal attorney]], with no clarity about whether Peters' is part of any ownership group separate from Axanar Productions Inc. or why he was able to [[axanar_finances#the_offer|offer part-ownership]] to departed chief technologist [[Terry McIntosh]] in May.+**AxaMonitor**'s investigation of the company supposedly operating the studio revealed a [[industry_studios|tangled web]] of shell companies stretching between California and Georgia, all represented by [[industry_studios#the_peters_connection|Peters' personal attorney]], with no clarity about whether Peters' is part of any ownership group separate from Axanar Productions Inc. or why he was able to [[axanar_finances#the_offer|offer part-ownership]] to departed chief technologist [[Terry McIntosh]] in May.
  
 Moreover, "not one dime" earned from the studio makes it appear as if Axanar wasn't trying to earn money until now. What appears to actually be the case is that the soundstage simply wasn't ready until recently to rent out to film or television productions.  Moreover, "not one dime" earned from the studio makes it appear as if Axanar wasn't trying to earn money until now. What appears to actually be the case is that the soundstage simply wasn't ready until recently to rent out to film or television productions. 
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 In fact, given its hundred thousand Twitter followers, tens of thousands of fans on Facebook, claimed 14,000 donors and the national (even international) positive news articles from such outlets as Space.com, Newsweek, Bloomberg, the Washington Post, and Wired, it's difficult to see how a disinformation campaign with a far smaller reach could threaten Axanar. In fact, given its hundred thousand Twitter followers, tens of thousands of fans on Facebook, claimed 14,000 donors and the national (even international) positive news articles from such outlets as Space.com, Newsweek, Bloomberg, the Washington Post, and Wired, it's difficult to see how a disinformation campaign with a far smaller reach could threaten Axanar.
  
-**HIDING DISSENT** Meanwhile, since the lawsuit was filed in December 2015, Peters has [[night_knives|purged]] hundreds of former fans from its various Facebook pages, blocked many from its Twitter feed and, after failing to [[no_refunds|silence critics]] with a combination of refunds and non-disclosure agreements, forced refunds on backers in order to [[no_refunds|delete their critical posts]] in Axanar's Kickstarter comment section and posted dozens of [[no refunds|spam messages]] on Kickstarter in order to obscure critics' comments by moving them down the web page..+**HIDING DISSENT** Meanwhile, since the lawsuit was filed in December 2015, Peters has [[night_knives|purged]] hundreds of former fans from its various Facebook pages, blocked many from its Twitter feed and, after failing to [[no_refunds|silence critics]] with a combination of refunds and non-disclosure agreements, forced refunds on backers in order to [[no_refunds|delete their critical posts]] in Axanar's Kickstarter comment section and posted dozens of [[no refunds|spam messages]] on Kickstarter in order to obscure critics' comments by moving them down the web page.
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