Stand by for the funniest news you’ve ever heard in your entire life,” Onion CEO Ben Collins wrote, in a social media post shortly before the news broke. But there’s a second punchline: The Onion, and now Infowars,

Best known for claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting never occurred, Jones has a long history of promoting anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theories as well.

This morning, the Associated Press reports that The Onion, the erstwhile sister site of The A.V. Club, has purchased InfoWars. Jones confirmed the news himself in a video posted to Twitter (X), suggesting that the satirical news site had worked with Connecticut Democrats and gesturing vaguely at some conspiratorial elements of the sale.