The Onion wins auction to take control of Alex Jones’s Infowars
The sale to the satirical news site ends Jones’s 25-year run controlling the conspiracy theorist website that peddled claims ...
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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 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 ...
Angry Judge Questions Transparency of Onion Bid for Infowars
A frustrated bankruptcy judge said he has concerns over the process in which satirical news site The Onion won an auction for ...
Fighting conspiracy theories with comedy? That’s what the Onion hopes after its purchase of Infowars
It seemed like bad satire, or yet another conspiracy theory. The comic website the Onion buys Alex Jones' misinformation ...