Infowars, The Onion and Alex Jones

The Onion’s Decision to Buy Infowars Started as Joke
The Onion’s CEO explains their most expensive gag yet — buying Infowars in a bankruptcy auction to shut down Alex Jones.
How Alex Jones’ Infowars wound up in the hands of The Onion
The purchase of Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction by the satirical news publication The Onion is the latest twist in a yearslong saga.
The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction
The satirical news company plans to shutter Jones’ Infowars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.
The Onion adds a new layer, buying Alex Jones’ Infowars and turning it into a parody of itself
Alex Jones himself has confirmed the news — calling The Onion “Connecticut Democrats” and declining to break kayfabe (“a total attack on free speech, the deep state is completely out of control”):
The Onion Buys Infowars, Alex Jones’s Site, Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site plans to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
Alex Jones Doesn't Seem Too Happy The Onion Just Bought Infowars
Alex Jones doesn’t seem particularly happy that his Infowars website was just purchased by The Onion. On Thursday morning, after the sale of the conspiracy-mongering website to the parody newspaper was announced, Jones took to X, formerly Twitter, to gripe about the injustice of it all.
The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars — and that's not a joke
The Onion, the satirical news outlet, purchased Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with the support of Sandy Hook victims' families.
The Onion wins auction to take control of Alex Jones’s Infowars
The sale to the satirical news site ends Jones’s 25-year run controlling the conspiracy theorist website that peddled claims the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “hoax.”
No joke: the Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars out of bankruptcy
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -Like a headline befitting the Onion, the parody news website is buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars in a bankruptcy auction. The Onion said in a statement on Thursday it aims to replace "Infowars' relentless barrage of disinformation" with the Onion's "noticeably less hateful disinformation.
The Onion buys Alex Jones' site Infowars at auction
The Onion is buying Infowars after the outlet shuttered amid Alex Jones' repayment to the families of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.
Bad day for Alex Jones as The Onion buys Infowars
The satirical site will immediately shut down the infamous conspiracy platform and work with leading gun safety organization to turn it into humor site.
The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction — with help from Sandy Hook victims’ families
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families ...
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The Onion wars: Satire paper buys Alex Jones Infowars with backing from Sandy Hook families
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by ...
CEO of Onion’s parent company says they’re ‘in shock’ over winning bid for Infowars
Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron said satirical news publication won the bidding for Alex ...
Behind the surprising Infowars purchase by The Onion
Satirical publication The Onion has purchased Infowars, Alex Jones' embattled brand. the Connecticut families of eight ...
Steve Bannon calls The Onion ‘deep state gestapo’ as he and Alex Jones watch Infowars be taken offline
The conspiracy theorist’s long-running operation was taken offline after satirical website bought it at auction ...