Satirical publication The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at bankruptcy auction
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The satirical publication The Onion said it has bought Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction for an undisclosed price, with the backing of the Connecticut families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and one first responder.
Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments to the families for calling the massacre a hoax. In a statement from their attorneys, the families said the purchase is "putting an end to the misinformation machine that Jones used to defame the families and victims for years."
The purchase was confirmed by conspiracy theorist Jones, who posted a video on X saying that The Onion bought his company. "The Connecticut Democrats with the Onion newspaper bought us," he said in the post, describing the bidding as "competitive."
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