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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Infowars/Alex Jones auction is over. Infowars was bought by... The Onion.
https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9The 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 platforms 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 Americas Finest News Source on its masthead control over a brand that has long peddled misinformation and conspiracy.
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 platforms 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 Americas Finest News Source on its masthead control over a brand that has long peddled misinformation and conspiracy.
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The Infowars/Alex Jones auction is over. Infowars was bought by... The Onion. (Original Post)
RockRaven
Nov 14
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Dr. Shepper
(3,095 posts)1. It's just too perfect to be true
But AP isnt a satirical news org (so I thought) and it isnt April Fools.
AZJonnie
(229 posts)2. So ... NOT The Onion?
This is pretty classic
Deminpenn
(16,443 posts)3. That is perfect!
The Onion is going to have a field day. I'll bet the vast majority of Infowars followers won't even know it was sold and under new ownership. One can imagine the crazy things The Onion will be able to get these rubes to believe.
W_HAMILTON
(8,649 posts)4. Need to use this as the blueprint to start going after other Republican mouthpieces spouting their disinformation.
This case, Dominion, Ruby Freeman/Shaye Moss, etc.