Onion buys Infowars

[Supafly]

This is the most poetic justice this week. guess I will become a member!

Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families’ backing

By DAVE COLLINS
Updated 6:38 PM MEZ, November 14, 2024​

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.
“The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the 2012 shooting in Connecticut, said in a statement Thursday provided by his lawyers.
The Onion acquired the conspiracy theory platform’s website; social media accounts; studio in Austin, Texas; trademarks; and video archive for an undisclosed sales price. The purchase gives a satirical outlet — which carries the banner of “America’s Finest News Source” on its masthead — control over a brand that has long peddled misinformation and conspiracy.

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https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9

 

[Supafly]

Sadly, this ruling blocks the procedings

Judge Rejects Sale of Infowars to The Onion​

The Onion’s bid for the conspiracy website was supported by the families of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting and a nonprofit focused on ending gun violence.


By Benjamin Mullin and Elizabeth Williamson
Dec. 10, 2024
A judge late Tuesday night said he would not approve the sale of Infowars, the website founded by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, to the Chicago-based satirical publication The Onion, prolonging a messy tug of war between two high-profile suitors.
The ruling, by Judge Christopher M. Lopez in federal bankruptcy court in Houston, poses a roadblock for The Onion’s plan to take possession of the Infowars site and its associated assets after it won an auction last month. The Onion’s bid was backed by the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting, who in 2022 won a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit against Mr. Jones.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/business/media/the-onion-infowars-alex-jones.html

 

[Torre82]

And here I was hoping for some quality satire that doesnt take itself as seriously as Jones.

I mean.. it isnt a far leap to hear the onion writing about the 'gay frogs' or the demons in the water, or.. /shrug

The demon is the audience who took it at face value. Or perhaps the folk who kept him around.

Perhaps he is truly the dead, opinionated comedian. (I forget his name, but the evidence is oddly compelling.)

/returns from my google-fu

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-da...egendary-long-dead-texas-comedian-bill-hicks/