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The Onion’s Decision to Buy Infowars Started As a Joke
The Onion’s CEO explains their most expensive gag yet — buying Infowars in a bankruptcy auction to shut down Alex Jones.
The Onion acquires Alex Jones’ Infowars with support from Sandy Hook families
The Onion has won the bankruptcy auction for Alex Jones’ Infowars, backed by families of Sandy Hook victims, with plans to ...
The Onion Buys Infowars — Planning To Make Alex Jones’ Site A Parody Of Itself
Ben Collins to made a successful bid for Inforwars' assests with the consent of the Sandy Hook families. The site will ...
Fighting conspiracy theories with comedy? That's what the Onion hopes after its purchase of Infowars
The bylined author of the Infowars article, Bryce P. Tetraeder, doesn't actually exist. And the Onion doesn't plan to invest ...
Satirical news site The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction as ‘a very funny joke’
The Onion, a satirical news website, appeared to have won a bankruptcy auction to buy Alex Jones’ Infowars, potentially ...
Chicago-based The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families' backing
Within hours of the sale’s announcement Thursday, Infowars’ website was down and Jones was broadcasting from what he said was ...
The Onion Wins Bid to Buy Infowars, Alex Jones’s Site, Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site intends to turn Infowars into a parody of itself. But the court overseeing the bankruptcy put a hold ...