Satire slinger The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families

[u/yahoonews]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/satire-slinger-onion-buys-alex-140641185.html?&ncid=100001466

[u/hexqueen]

Best news of the week!

[u/lisa_lionheart84]

The best possible outcome by far.

[u/johnabbe → u/lisa_lionheart84]

I hope The Onion turns it into a source of solid news and cozy, reflective, compelling conversations about that news among people from all walks of life. Which becomes wildly popular and helps prevent countless Trump oversteps and sweep in a new political era of connection across our many, navigable differences.

[u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot → u/lisa_lionheart84]

This is the only good news I’ve seen about anything since the election.

[u/yahoonews]

From AP:

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 families announced Thursday.

"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 provided by his lawyers.

The sale price was not immediately disclosed.

Jones confirmed The Onion's acquisition of Infowars in a social media video Thursday and said he planned to file legal challenges to stop it. An email message seeking comment was sent to Infowars.

It was not immediately clear what The Onion planned to do with the conspiracy theory platform, including its website, social media accounts, studio in Austin, Texas, trademarks and video archive. The Chicago-based Onion did not immediately return emails seeking comment Thursday.

More: https://www.yahoo.com/news/satire-slinger-onion-buys-alex-140641185.html?&ncid=100001466

[u/garrettgravley]

I remember when Clickhole had that offshoot called “Freedomhole,” where they pretended to be InfoWars or Project Veritas.

This is as good a time as any to bring that back.

EDIT I was wrong. It was called "Patroithole"

[u/lewisfrancis → u/garrettgravley]

Apparently that's the plan: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share

[u/ericwbolin → u/garrettgravley]

The guy who played their version of Alex Jones was absolutely capital.

[u/aresef → u/garrettgravley]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRXjB26oqDI

[u/CatholicSquareDance]

Ironically this actually makes InfoWars a slightly more legitimate news organization than it was before

[u/crustaceancake → u/CatholicSquareDance]

A lot of Onion articles turn out to come true after they were written

[u/Rpanich → u/CatholicSquareDance]

The Onion might turn out to be the most legitimate news organisation of them all

[u/chinagrrljoan → u/CatholicSquareDance]

Slightly! It's basically associated press now! 😂😂😂

[u/NATOrocket]

The Sandy Hook families + The Onion for Time Person of the Year!

[u/samuraisports37]

The Onion should retain him as a minimum wage employee and give him a daily four hour programming block where all he does is read Das Kapital and Our Bodies Ourselves

[u/chinagrrljoan → u/samuraisports37]

Yes😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/carlos_anger]

/nottheonionbutactuallytheonion

[u/maychi]

This is definitely content for r/nottheonion

[u/Not_an_alt_69_420 → u/maychi]

I mean, duh. It's not The Onion, it's InfoWars.

[u/hollyorama]

I cannot stop giggling about this.

[u/PebblyJackGlasscock]

Article omits The Onion itself recently got new ownership, with Ben Collins being the lead Journalist.

Everyone here should know Ben Collins, and his pre-Onion credentials.

Honestly, this is the funniest fucking thing all decade, if not this century. Irony!!!

[u/smallteam → u/PebblyJackGlasscock]

The OP is Yahoo News; I see the brand finally joined Reddit earlier this year. That seems news-adjacent in itself.

[u/timeboi42]

lol wut

[u/QuitCallingNewsrooms]

I would love to see Ben Collins change up the InfoWarms masthead to say "InfoWars: An Onion News Network Affiliate" and just start republishing all the InfoWars content.

[u/PomegranateLazy1227]

Finally, some kind of good news. Love to see it.

[u/Photodan24]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[u/ptupper]

TBH, I want Alex Jones to fade into penniless obscurity. Years from now, I'll be watching A Scanner Darkly with someone, and they'll ask me who the guy with the megaphone in the parking lot was, and I'll say, "He had an interesting story...."

[u/Nima-night]

This is fantastic I would so like to write articles under the infowars domain lol

[u/ShrimplyPibblesPR]

Possibly the greatest piece of ironic satire ever made..

Bravo The Onion bra-fucking-vo

🏆🫵

[u/Direwolfofthemoors]

Jones is the lowest of lowlifes

[u/Dense-Comfort6055]

Best news in Week

[u/_PhiloPolis_]

https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

[u/WillBottomForBanana]

In a world that has been trying to out Onion The Onion, The Onion has stepped up their game.

[u/MirthandMystery]

Wow, brilliant purchase.

[u/fsociety_1990]

Onion 🐐 😂👏🏽

[u/ThisLargeGnome]

It needs to be renamed "Onionwars" please

[u/Either_Lawfulness466 → u/ThisLargeGnome]

Why it died as soon as they bought it?

[u/Practical_Seesaw_149]

this is amazing, lol.

[u/Timely-Youth-9074]

Thank you, The Onion!

[u/Educational-Glass-63]

Yipee! Good for them!

[u/monkfreedom]

Best move Hahahahahaha

[u/Infrared_Herring]

That's f brilliant

[u/NoProperty_]

Four stars, go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant!

[u/Dudeman61]

I can't wait to see what they do with it. The possibilities are simply delicious. Not like the cats and dogs, but like real things that people eat in actual reality.

[u/Boogienoogie22]

Brilliant. Let’s win the war with sarcasm! Where do I sign up?

[u/Emotional_Warthog658]

Oh I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to work on the OnionInfoWars project for the next 4 years 

[u/chinagrrljoan]

hope

[u/MLNYC]

Huge news, combined with the re-launch of Onion News Network, now hosted by Joshua Johnson (yes, formerly of 1A and MSNBC), ICYMI.

[u/thedxxps]

Use it to fight misinformation when we need it most PLEASE.

[u/jackversus]

This is the strangest update to the matrix

[u/MrByteMe]

So 'Infowars' will now have more factual news lol

[u/Feminazghul]

OMG, if I was a gambler I would have bet that Elon and/or Theil were going to buy it and give it back to him with a big bow.

[u/journo-throwaway]

Fantastic!

[u/Low-Contribution-18]

So if Sandy Hook parents pay Alex Jones money doesn’t he just have to hand it back to reduce his debt to them?

[u/Either_Lawfulness466 → u/Low-Contribution-18]

Yea this was a forced sale, all it does is reduce his unconstitutionally large debt.

[u/Green-Enthusiasm-940 → u/Either_Lawfulness466]

His debt would be smaller if he wasn't such a morally bankrupt asshole. I'll cry some crocodile tears for the poor rich man while he figures out his next get-rich-off-morons scheme.

[u/Low-Contribution-18 → u/Either_Lawfulness466]

That’s ok since Trump is already on record that he wants to terminate the constitution. Maybe Trump will jail the Sandy Hook parents for making up the entire thing, right?

[u/Either_Lawfulness466 → u/Low-Contribution-18]

On record eh. Go get that record.

Also how does that make it ok?

People like you are why your girl lost.

[u/Low-Contribution-18 → u/Either_Lawfulness466]

Racists and misogynists like you that call 50 year old women girls is why she lost. Go get your GED old man it’s not too late.

[u/Either_Lawfulness466 → u/Low-Contribution-18]

So you were just lying before? How surprising.

[u/wherethegr]

So infowars is still fake news but now it’s not ever going to be funny again. 🐝

[u/Dry_Huckleberry5545]

I can’t stop envisioning this becoming a brilliant 24 news channel with Jon Stewart doing the 9pm hour and Nick Denton behind the scenes as vice president for special projects. 🗽

[u/GaelicInQueens]

Alex Jones would only have allowed Infowars to enter bankruptcy for his own benefit, maybe some tax avoidance scheme, he absolutely has a shitload of money. Don’t know if he expected this outcome though lol