The Onion Acquires Infowars

Thursday, November 14, 2024

The satirical news outlet purchased Alex Jones' right-wing conspiracy empire at a court-ordered auction, the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting announced Thursday.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 03:31 PM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink

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This will almost certainly be the funniest thing I hear about all day.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2024-11-14 09:28 AM

perfect.

#2 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-14 09:32 AM

The truthfulness of the content is going to increase exponentially.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-14 10:33 AM

A story about the Onion that sounds like something from the Onion. Satire is dead.

#4 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-11-14 11:20 AM

Agree Lee, I saw the headline and assumed it was an Onion article. I haven't read the onion for a while because MAGA headlines were so much more bizarre.

#5 | Posted by mattm at 2024-11-14 11:36 AM

Poetic Justice in action, rofl.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-14 12:44 PM

I thought it was weird.....then it makes sense..

makes sense in the same way if the Babylonbee bought this place....

guffaw...

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-14 12:44 PM

Except the Babylon Bee is just low brow stupidity that doesn't even come close to being funny.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-14 01:17 PM

- low brow stupidity

Speaking of ShrimpDickDan....

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-14 01:39 PM

The amount of the bid was not announced.

Bummer.

#10 | Posted by GOnoles92 at 2024-11-14 04:32 PM

A fitting makeover of a toxic disinformation source that had played a significant role in the indoctrination of the MAGA cult.

#11 | Posted by cbob at 2024-11-14 05:23 PM

God has not abandoned us and he has a sense of humor!

#12 | Posted by Tor at 2024-11-14 07:59 PM

My son sent me their announcement from Instagram, and it's hilarious, if you can get to it. (No app required.) Their ad policies, I believe it is, would include "... making orphans available to factories, at no cost to the factories!"

#13 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-11-14 10:08 PM

Pretty sure the folks who follow Infowars won't notice.

#14 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-11-15 06:27 AM

Update...

Judge orders hearing to review Onion's purchase of Alex Jones's InfoWars
www.theguardian.com

... A judge has intervened and ordered a hearing to review the purchase of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's InfoWars site by the satirical news site the Onion.

On Thursday morning, it was announced that the Onion had bought InfoWars at Jones's bankruptcy auction.

But later that day, the judge overseeing Jones's bankruptcy case held an emergency hearing, during which lawyers representing Jones and a company affiliated with him expressed concerns about the auction process. The judge has ordered an evidentiary hearing for next week to determine if the auction was conducted fairly, which could delay the process. ...

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-15 12:59 PM

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