The Onion buys Infowars out of bankruptcy in move backed by Sandy Hook families

Satirical news outlet the Onion has purchased Alex Jones' Infowars site out of bankruptcy. The sale comes after the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims won a $1.5 billion libel suit against ...

The Onion buys InfoWars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families

Satirical news outlet The Onion has bought Alex Jones' InfoWars at a bankruptcy auction with help from families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting. NBC News' Brandy Zadrozny reports ...

Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families' backing

A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas has ordered a hearing into how the satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars, after Jones and his lawyers ...

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The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy

The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

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The Onion to acquire Infowars out of bankruptcy

Satirical website wins auction for media business controlled by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

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The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at bankruptcy auction

Satirical publication The Onion, with the support of Sandy Hook families, purchased the bankrupt site of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Satirical outlet The Onion has bought Alex Jones' Infowars at auction, relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims say

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No joke: The Onion wins bankruptcy auction for Alex Jones' 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 ...

The Onion buys Alex Jones’s Infowars at auction

The satirical news publication The Onion said Thursday it purchased conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars website at a bankruptcy auction. “All told, the decision to acquire InfoWars was an ...

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The Onion Is Buying Alex Jones's Infowars Site

The satirical website joined with families who lost children in the Sandy Hook massacre to acquire Infowars

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Not a Joke: ‘The Onion’ Buys Alex Jones’s InfoWars Site

The satirical publication acquired the extreme-right, Sandy Hook-denying InfoWars during an auction of Jones’s assets, and will use it to parody its sanity-challenged conspiracy claims.

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The Onion wins control over Infowars after Alex Jones bankruptcy auction

The Onion has won control over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' media empire, including his flagship website Infowars, after winning a bankruptcy auction for his properties.

The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’

Satirical news outlet purchases media platform run by Alex Jones at a court-ordered auction. The satirical news outlet the Onion has purchased Infowars, the rightwing media platform run by the ...

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Satirical news site The Onion buys Alex Jones's Infowars at auction

Infowars was auctioned as part of a defamation ruling after Jones falsely called the Sandy Hook School shooting a hoax.

Who will buy Infowars? Both supporters and opponents of Alex Jones interested in bankruptcy auction

The assets of Alex Jones' Infowars are set to be auctioned off next week, and both supporters and detractors of the conspiracy theorist are expressing interest in bidding

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Behind the surprising Infowars purchase by The Onion

Satirical publication The Onion has purchased Infowars, Alex Jones' embattled brand. The Connecticut families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and one first responder ...

Alex Jones' Infowars purchased by The Onion

The satirical site The Onion has purchased Infowars, the media platform owned by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The Onion in its purchase received the support of Sandy Hook families who won over ...

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Future of Alex Jones' Infowars in hands of bidders at bankruptcy auction

Bidders interested in acquiring the media company founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will battle it out at a bankruptcy auction Wednesday, potentially silencing his Infowars broadcasting ...

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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

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How did The Onion's Infowars acquisition go down and why?

The satirical news company The Onion bought the right-wing media outlet Infowars at a bankruptcy auction. CBS News' Lilia Luciano reports on why the acquisition happened and what they plan on doing ...

Fighting conspiracy theories with comedy? That's what the Onion hopes after its purchase of Infowars

It seemed like bad satire, or yet another conspiracy theory

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