The Onion Wins Bidding for InfoWars Assets
The Onion Wins Bidding for InfoWars Assets
Satirical news site The Onion won the auction to acquire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars, which was sold off as part of a defamation settlement after he falsely called the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax.
A small bright spot in a dark timeline.
“The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site’s users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash,” said The Onion CEO Ben Collins. “Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin.”
This is gold.
Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society—values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron.
Probably accept that, too!
My absolute favorite part of this is that they also own his supplement business now.
I spent about ten minutes trying to figure out if this was just an Onion headline ..... only to realize it is indeed an Onion headline ... this is beautiful
Active ingredients:
Salt
Isn't it usually sugar? (With a big helping of snake oil.)
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I love that
They're turning the freaking frogs gay!
is now officially an Onion story.
Also that was the only conspiracy he covered that was slightly grounded in reality. The atrazine poisoning was hermaphrodizing the frogs. Of course more regulation to stop pollution is not a solution that dumbfuck jones would support..:
In case you haven’t seen it:
My favourite is the Indie Folk song version: https://youtu.be/KGAAhzreGWw?si=DNESi3LCH85MMLXP
I'd like to respond with:
In order to make the bid work, the families “agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, enabling its success,” the families said in a statement.
The power of unity and determination beautifully demonstrated.
That is also one of they ways we can stop gun violence. Bring back the sense of community and being one people. Also common sense gun reforms.
As a policy wonk I feel that this was the correct buyer. Damn, it couldn't be funnier. The Onion now owns Alex Jones' former twitter account.
Right? I haven't listened to knowledge fight in a minute, but I'm sure looking for their upcoming episodes.
Love to see it!
It would be great if The Onion could use this site to help grow an information platform to counter the Rights enormous disinformation network. And using satire or jokes can maybe break through the noise of main stream media who always treat the fascists with kid gloves.
LFG!
I wonder if they would be willing to gift the desk to Knowledge Fight...? I know Dan has wished he could get his hands on that for a long time.
That was my first thought as well! Just gift something from the set to Knowledge Fight.
Hell, they could full on partner up
Thats a great idea! I was thinking the QAnon Anonymous podcast folks would be great for conspiracy deep dives. They already are but on infowars that would be perfect 🤌
Just when the country needed a laugh the most, The Onion went and did the funniest thing they could possibly do. This is a wonderful morning.
So the families gave up a pile of money in order to back The Onion's bid and make sure Jones wasn't just reinstalled doing the same shit as before under the Infowars banner. Wonder who the shitbirds were that made a 7-figure offer to do that fuckery? I wonder if it rhymes with Felon Tusk?
The families didn't pay for this, The Onion did.
The families support was mostly not financial in this .
They backed the Onion bid to reduce the cost and make sure they were successful. It definitely cost them.
I hope they do what the Colbert Report did, keep the inforwars name and let it be a right wing lampooning.
I will gladly eat that onion.
I love this so much. It's perfect!
The hilarious part is infowars.com is going to troll Alex Jones new site so hard.
Time to start working on my alternative writing personality, trans socialist Jordane Petersburg. Or should I be Bo Rogaine?
Be sure to give your self a military background as an antifa paratrooper super soldier. Maybe get a J6er as the pfp.
Is this what being on drugs is like in normal times?
I love this, I hope they turn it into a fake far-right website to mess with conservatives
But a federal judge in Texas ordered a hearing into how the Onion – known for bite – won the bidding, after Jones and his lawyers raised questions about how the auction was conducted.
Yeah, seems like there was some behind the scenes work so that the onion could buy it, we'll see if it stands up in the (I assume deeply corrupt...) bankruptcy court. God, I hope it does....
It will be fun if The Onion and Infowars use this to satirize the presidential debates.
I love that people kept saying they should do this and then it freaking happened! I am so curious how much they paid.
Hopefully not enough to cover all debts still owed. I want him fully bled dry
Honestly, it's the perfect platform b/c it was already filled with joke level insight.
Dr jones naturals is still online.
Didn’t he transfer that to his dad? He’s been very public about illegally subverting parts of his judgement by transferring some ownership to his dad.
Because it's owned by his father. It's a workaround to sell supplements.
I can’t not read that in the little Asian kid’s voice from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
I'm being a lazy sack. I skimmed the article but didn't find an amount they won it for, has anyone seen how much they just paid the man who needs to pay his dues?
They paid him nothing. The auction was for the settlement of debts in bankruptcy court. Basically, the courts seized his assets including Infowars and auctioned them off to cover the outstanding debts owed.
Per NPR: The sale, which still needs to be approved by a bankruptcy judge, includes Jones' studio and equipment, his lucrative online nutritional supplement store, domain names, customer lists and some of his social media accounts.
So it'll be fun when all settled
Oh fuck yeah let me get my popcorn. Peice of shit deserves all that.