The Onion buys Alex Jones’ InfoWars at court auction with help from Sandy Hook families

Satirical news site and self-described “corporate overlords” The Onion has bought right-wing conspiracy theory site Infowars.

The Onion’s chief executive, Ben Collins, revealed on Thursday (14 November) that the organisation had acquired the media site at a court-ordered auction.

“The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased Infowars,” Collins wrote. “We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.”

The site’s former owner, Alex Jones, shared a clip on X/Twitter just prior to the announcement, saying that “Connecticut Democrats” were trying to shut it down. Infowars is currently offline.

The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, a group of former writers who purchased the site in April, released a statement following news of their latest acquisition, The New York Times reported.

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