The Onion Buys Alex Jones' Infowars At Auction
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Jones' conspiracy theory media empire went on the auction block to help pay the Sandy Hook families he spent years defaming.
Alex Jones’ Infowars conspiracy theory media empire was bought by satirical news organization The Onion, the company reported Thursday.
A private auction for Infowars took place Wednesday morning as part of a personal bankruptcy plan to pay the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting after Jones spent years falsely claiming the shooting that left 20 kids and six adults dead never happened, and that those whose loved ones were killed were actors.
Ben Collins, chief executive at The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, said on social media that Infowars was bought with the blessing of the Sandy Hook families affected by Jones’ misinformation campaign. The new Infowars, he said, will be relaunched by employees of The Onion and eventually look like a parody of itself — to include ads by Everytown for Gun Safety, an anti-gun violence nonprofit launched after of the Sandy Hook shooting.
“We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website,” Collins wrote on social media app Bluesky. “We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can’t wait to show you what we have cooked up.”
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