Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families
Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families' backing
lol. lmao
You have no idea how thoroughly I scoured every aspect of the URL and contents to make sure this article wasn't coming from The Onion itself.
Likewise, and I am still not 100% sure.
I wanna know how much they spent on this joke. At the end of the day all they bought was a URL right?
They get all the assets like the studio and the fake boner pill business
The Connecticut families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting that had sued Jones and Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, backed the bid by The Onion to purchase Infowars’ intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and inventory, certain social media accounts and the production equipment used to put Jones on the air. The Connecticut families agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, “enabling its success,” according to lawyers for the families.
So like also some cameras, contact lists, trademarks etc.
The real thing they bought was assurance nobody else could buy it. Especially those customer lists. Lists like that built the modern Right.
infowars is a trademark. the auction covers all his accounts and anything related to the brand as far as i know
NYT says less than $3.5M, which is really not very much.
True patriots in control
This is the first time on this site I've had the reddit experience of the entire front page filled up with the same headline
True patriots in control
Oh that's delightful
that posture has serious "so it has come to this..." energy
"I miss leading raiding parties through swamps"
As a long time conspiracy theory "fan", following the absolute lowliest, worst of the worst pieces of shit on the planet, this feels a bit like a moment of respite. A relief to watch live as one of the largest peddlers of filth is shut down.
what's to stop alex from starting up again under another name? i'm sure elon or thiel or someone would give him the money...
Debt and legal provisions, basically. Jones isn't a financially independent person anymore. He kept losing court cases to the Sandy Hook survivors to the point they decided to liquidate his company. He owes them an astounding amount of money for libel and damages, like in the billions.
He's already admitted he's going to do that.
Jones had said on his show that “good guys” had been trying to bid on Infowars to keep him in place, but that even if they fail, he’ll keep broadcasting on new platforms and new social media accounts.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/business/onion-alex-jones-infowars-auction/index.html
Here is a press statement from The Onion. It says that the Onion plans to completely transition InfoWars into a new website by January 2025. I think this is a screenshot of an email maybe. Maxwell Tani is a journalist from semafor.com, so it's definitely a legit screenshot.
https://xcancel.com/maxwelltani/status/1857063171900514527
Here is a joke article about the acquisition. The acquisition is real.
https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/
Here is a video clip of Alex Jones announcing the acquisition by The Onion.
https://xcancel.com/JordanUhl/status/1857075969544040582
Here is a social media post by Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion. "We're planning on making a very stupid website."
https://xcancel.com/oneunderscore__/status/1857068633127530939
Finally some good fucking news
The chuds' twitter responses to The Onion's post are unintentionally gut-bustingly hilarious.
The chuds saying it hasn't been funny since '16 are really telling because it's probably because they made fun of poor smol bean Trump :(
Lol, the number of responders that are personally insulting "the global tetrahedron CEO" is amazing
More on the purchase announcement
real
hoursCorncob season is going on really long this year.
Well that’s one way to try to make Infowars irrelevant.
oh no
I didn't know anything about the sale. A few minutes ago on Bluesky I saw hard to understand post with a screengrab of Jones doing his yelling shtick on Infowars and the text said "his Onion sale". It's weird when seemingly impossible rare events have a 50/50 chance of being true. But now in this Trump 2.0 era - such events might happen a few times a month. Yesterday it was Gaetz as Trump's AG pick. Today it's The Onion owning Infowars. Will tomorrow have crazy news too? Or will we have to wait a week or two?
If we can't have sanity, I'll settle for hilarity.
Misread your statement
AJ (and a bottomless well of replacements and copycats) will plague me forever, but there’s some entertainment to be had in the moment while it lasts
God yes.
[Not the Onion (?)]
new home for PatriotHole
https://clickhole.com/tag/patriothole/
they are no longer the same company, so no
Someone at AP is having a hard time concealing their hatred of the Onion or doesn't grasp the concept of satire
I actually read that line as being in the spirit of an Onion article itself. Something like "Executives at The Onion admit entire contents of site to be patently absurd nonsense, according to exclusive investigative report by The Onion."
I think someone at AP is jealous.
Someone at AP not realizing what a lot of their own job is 😁