The Onion plans to relaunch the Infowars website with satire aimed at conspiracy theorists and right-wing personalities, as well as information about gun violence.
WASHINGTON — The satirical news publication The Onion was named the winning bidder for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.
The purchase would turn over Jones’ company, which for decades has peddled in conspiracy and misinformation, to a humor website that plans to relaunch the Infowars platform in January as a parody. The judge in Jones’ bankruptcy ordered
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