The Onion has purchased InfoWars, the website previously owned and operated by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction.
Jones was forced to file for bankruptcy after he lost a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit filed against him by victims’ families of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting.
Jones was apparently unaware that The Onion had purchased InfoWars until he was alerted by his lawyers on Thursday morning. “I just got word 15 minutes ago that my lawyers and folks met with the U.S. trustee over our bankruptcy this morning and they said they are shutting us down even without a court order this morning,” Jones said on social media. “The Connecticut democrats with The Onion newspaper bought us.”
The Onion intends to relaunch InfoWars “as a parody of itself,” with Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit dedicated to ending gun violence, serving as its presenting sponsor, according to the New York Times.
This is a developing story…
