The Onion Buys Infowars in Bankruptcy Auction

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/the-onion-buys-infowars-bankruptcy-auction-1236210061/

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  1. Excerpt:

    >Infowars, the far-right conspiracy theory outlet driven into bankruptcy over lies founder Alex Jones spread about the Sandy Hook massacre, has a new owner: satirical news site The Onion.

    >The Onion, whose parent company is Global Tetrahedron, declined to disclose how much it paid for Infowars’ asserts. The Onion was acquired in April by Jeff Lawson, co-founder and former CEO of Twilio, a customer-service software company.

  3. When I first saw this, I had to make sure it wasn’t an Onion article.

  7. From The Onion:

    “As for the vitamins and supplements, we are halting their sale immediately. Utilitarian logic dictates that if we can extend even one CEO’s life by 10 minutes, diluting these miracle elixirs for public consumption is an unethical waste. Instead, we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal.”

  8. Great another new stupid fucking piece of shit that doesn’t do the goddamn thing it supposed to do.

  11. I really hope they hire an actor that can pass for Alex Jones and just satire the shit out of him.

  14. I heard this earlier, but honestly thought I ate the onion. What is that, throwing up the onion?

  15. Ten years ago that would have been an actual Onion headline.

  18. I wonder if the families can garnish future income from Jones. Otherwise he can just go back into business as infowarriors and keep cashing in.

  19. *The Onion* knocks it outta the park. These guys are legends.

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