#infowars

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[prokopetz]

While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.

Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Onion, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.

(EDIT: Fixed a sentence incorrectly suggesting that Clickhole is still affiliated with the Onion – it totally slipped my mind that they'd sold it back in 2020.)

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Alex Jones, the ultra-right-wing conspiracy-theorist, was forced to sell InfoWars in a bankruptcy lawsuit.

[dduane]

This is real. :)

Some good news for the day. Thank you Onion! 🤣

[ayeforscotland]

Satirical news site, the Onion, has apparently purchased InfoWars and plans to turn it into a parody site dedicated to making fun of people like Alex Jones.

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Only concern there is that I don’t think any previous viewer of infowars would be able to understand satire anyway.

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We do truly live in a society.

[destielmemenews]

"The Onion’s bid was backed by the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and one first responder. It also will have an exclusive advertising deal with the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety."

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LMAOOO I JUST WATCHED ALEX JONES GO OFFLINE IN REALTIME

[knottahooker]

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 provided by his lawyers. The Onion acquired the conspiracy theory platform’s website; social media accounts; studio in Austin, Texas; trademarks; and video archive. The sale price was not immediately disclosed. The Onion said its “exclusive launch advertiser” will be the gun violence prevention organization Everytown for Gun Safety. “Everytown will continue to raise awareness on InfoWars’ channels about gun violence prevention and present actual solutions to our nation’s gun violence crisis, including bipartisan, common-sense measures and public safety initiatives backed by Everytown,” The Onion said in a statement Thursday. 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.

There's more information in the article, but just posting this to say AHAHAHA GET FUCKED ALEX

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Greg Reese Report 👇

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The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’

Good news is rare and precious these days

[yeahiwasintheshit]

AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Die penniless with every dollar going to the people you hurt, you fuckin pig!

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350000 lost children

[victusinveritas]

Christ, this keeps getting better.

[dduane]

"At times like this," says Peter Olson over at Bluesky, "it's good to look at things that will calm you down and bring you joy."

[alessandriana]