Bad day for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as The Onion buys Infowars
The satirical site will immediately shut down the infamous conspiracy platform and work with leading gun safety organization to turn it into humor site.
No joke, this time.
Satirical publication The Onion has purchased Infowars and all of its assets at auction, dealing a final blow to internet rabble-rouser Alex Jones’ conspiracy empire.
The acquisition, announced Thursday, came with the support of families of children who were killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting, who had previously won a $1.4 billion defamation verdict against Jones, whose radio show promoted conspiracies claiming the massacre was a “hoax” involving paid “crisis actors.”
Twenty children and six adults were killed by a shooter during the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
The Onion said it will immediately shut down Infowars — which peddled a litany of conspiracy theories while also hawking supplements — and work with the gun safety organization Everytown for Gun Safety to transition it into a humor site, which it said would launch in January.
“The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its tradition of scaring the site’s users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash,” said CEO Ben Collins. He added: “We hope the Sandy Hook families will be able to marvel at the cosmic joke we will soon make InfoWars.com.”
The sale price was not disclosed.
Jones, an ardent supporter of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, confirmed the acquisition Thursday, calling the sale “tyranny of the new world order” in a video posted to X and promising legal challenges.
“I’m gonna be in here until they come in here and turn the lights off,” he said.
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