The Onion Takes Control of the Alex Jones Media Empire

*** Not Satire

Satirical news company The Onion has won a bankruptcy auction of Alex Jones’ media empire, which includes the conspiracy-theory-laden website InfoWars.

Jones announced Thursday morning that “the Connecticut democrats with The Onion newspaper bought us.”

The Onion bought Infowars, the money will go to Sandy Hook families, Alex Jones is having a meltdown.Today is a good day.(Pt. 1)

Nikki McCann Ramírez (@nikkimcr.bsky.social) 2024-11-14T14:32:09.267Z

The Onion plans to shutter Jones’ InfoWars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators.

Juries awarded the Sandy Hook families $1.5 billion in their lawsuits, but they have been unable to collect anything from Jones.