OAN Staff James Meyers
7:49 AM – Thursday, November 14, 2024
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding war for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes over $1 billion in defamation judgements for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday.
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“The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the 2012 shooting in Connecticut, said in a statement provided by his lawyers.
The sale price was not immediately announced.
Jones confirmed the acquisition by The Onion in a social media video on Thursday. However, he said that he plans to file legal challenges to put a stop to it.
InfoWars has been purchased by the Onion.
Say what you will about him, his loyalties…this is an attack on free speech.
— eve (@eveforamerica) November 14, 2024
“Last broadcast now live from Infowars studios. They are in the building. Are ordering shutdown without court approval,” Jones said on the social platform X.
Jones was broadcasting live from the Infowars studio Thursday morning and appeared in shock, putting his head in his hand at his desk.
Currently, it’s unclear what The Onion plans to do with its platform, including its website, social media accounts, Austin, Texas studio, trademarks, and video archive.
Sealed bids for the platform were opened Wednesday during a private auction. Meanwhile, both Jones supporters and opposition showed interest in buying Infowars. The other bidders have yet to be revealed.
The Onion, which is known as a satirical site that manages to persuade people to believe wild headlines, calls itself “the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events” and says it has 4.3 trillion daily readers.
Jones has been saying on his show that if his detractors bought Infowars, he would move his daily broadcasts and product sales to a new studio, websites, and social media accounts that he has already set up. However, if his supporters won the bidding, he said he could stay on the Infowars platforms.
In a statement on the social media site BlueSky, The Onion CEO Ben Collins said his company does have plans for Infowars.
“We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can’t wait to show you what we have cooked up,” he wrote.
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