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CHICAGO — While opponents of far-right conspiracy media figure Alex Jones cheered the news last week that Chicago-based satirical news site The Onion was acquiring his platform, InfoWars, in a bankruptcy auction, the ink isn’t dry on the deal quite yet. On Monday, a federal bankruptcy judge in Texas ruled that the sale of InfoWars […]
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has filed a motion with a bankruptcy court. He hopes to halt the sale of his Infowars platform to The Onion. The sale, which concluded with a $1.75 million bid from The Onion, followed a defamation lawsuit brought by the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Jones […]
The Onion’s bid for Infowars came together with help from Sandy Hook families. The deal is now on hold after a bankruptcy judge expressed concerns about the auction. The Onion CEO Ben Collins has said he wants to transform InfoWars into an “alt-media” parody hub. On the surface, The Onion’s announcement that it had purchased […]
Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO, in an op-ed for The Onion: 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. No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets […]
Alex Jones is having a full meltdown on the cusp of InfoWars’s extinction. The far-right conspiracy network was auctioned off to the satirical outlet The Onion, ending what was arguably Jones’s most successful endeavor while marking the beginning of his descent into irrelevancy. During a breathless rant on Steve Bannon’s War Room from the InfoWars […]
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably Infowars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones’ primary online platform. Jones announced the sale on X on Thursday morning. “I just got word 15 minutes ago […]
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than US$1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday. “The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the […]