The Onion buys Infowars

[BeBMan]

The parent company of the satirical publication The Onion announced Thursday it has purchased Alex Jones’ Infowars franchise, which was auctioned off this week to help pay the nearly $1.5 billion Jones owes the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre for falsely claiming the school shooting was staged.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/11/14/the-onion-buys-alex-jones-infowars-out-of-bankruptcy/

Seems this is a thing, I mean beyond the satirical value. We live in interesting times.


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[-Jrabbit]

Pretty hilarious. Doesn't really change anything, except Jones will now have to rent or create another studio - oh, and change the name from InfoWars, a trademark he no longer controls. Plus, Sandy Hook parents get a few more pennies of the $1.5 billion they are owed. Plus, it's a nice and well-deserved F.U. to Alex Jones.

BTW, The Onion's ownership is new as well.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2024/05/10/onion-chicago-owner-global-tetrahedron-satire-news

Global Tetrahedron/The Onion plans to relaunch InfoWars next year as a satirical website.

[Broken_Erika]

Of course it would be called Global Tetrahedron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Dumb_Century#Running_gags

[Bereta_Eder]

i thought the transaction happened years ago