The Onion, a satirical publication that mocks current events and newsmakers, has acquired Alex Jones’ conspiracy mega-site Infowars through a bankruptcy auction. #Delicious
Breaking News: The Onion, the satirical publication, said it won a bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, a website run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. https://t.co/BeEshHqi0n
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 14, 2024
From the New York Times:
The Onion said that the bid was sanctioned by the families of the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who in 2022 won a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit against Mr. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems.
Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit dedicated to ending gun violence that was founded in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, will advertise on a relaunched version of the site under The Onion.
Family members of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting, which claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators, sued Mr. Jones in Connecticut Superior Court in 2018 after he spread the baseless claim that the rampage was a fabricated pretext for confiscating Americans’ firearms.
According to Ben Collins, the chief executive of The Onion’s parent company, the publication plans to relaunch Infowars as a parody of itself skewering “weird internet personalities” like Jones, who live to spread misinformation.
The Onion has acquired Infowars in a bankruptcy auction.
They plan to debut a new Infowars in January that will serve as parody, mocking weird Internet personalities like Alex Jones. The Onion CEO says they acquired it because “this is the funniest thing that has ever happened” pic.twitter.com/yBehVoYGEI — DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) November 14, 2024
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