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Article in The Guardian by Anna Betts and agency, 11/15/24
Headline: “Judge orders hearing to review Onion’s purchase of Alex Jones’s InfoWars”
Subhead: “Judge to audit if conspiracy theorist’s bankruptcy auction was fair, which could delay buying process for satire site”
“On Thursday morning, it was announced that the Onion had bought InfoWars at Jones’s bankruptcy auction.
“But later that day, the judge overseeing Jones’s bankruptcy case held an emergency hearing, during which lawyers representing Jones and a company affiliated with him expressed concerns about the auction process. The judge has ordered an evidentiary hearing for next week to determine if the auction was conducted fairly, which could delay the process.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/the-onion-infowars-bankruptcy
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Article in The Guardian by Anna Betts, 11/14/24
Headline: “The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, ‘very stupid’ ”
Subhead: “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 conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, at a court-ordered auction.”
“CEO Ben Collins confirmed this in a post on Bluesky on Thursday, writing: ‘The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased 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.’ ”
“. . . The sale follows a judge’s order earlier this year for Jones to liquidate his personal assets, to help him to pay off the $1.4bn he was ordered to pay the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six educators when they took him to court for defamation after he falsely claimed that the shooting was a hoax, and that they were actors who staged the shooting as part of a government plot to seize Americans’ guns.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/14/onion-info-wars-alex-jones
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Article in Status News by Oliver Darcy, 11/14/24
Headline: “Not Satire: The Onion acquires Infowars“
“As part of the deal, The Onion, owned by Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson and led by chief executive Ben Collins, acquired Infowars‘ website, product inventory, customers lists, social media accounts, and intellectual property.”
“. . . Owen Shroyer, a popular Infowars personality, expressed disbelief at the news The Onion had acquired the company.
“ ‘It’s almost like a satire of a satire,” Shroyer said on Infowars’ final broadcast. “It’s like a joke of a joke.’ ”
https://www.status.news/p/not-satire-the-onion-acquires-infowars
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Article in Common Dreams by Julia Conley, 11/14/24
Headline: “Media Justice as The Onion Buys Infowars From ‘Hateful’ (and Bankrupt) Alex Jones”
Subhead: ” ‘This is going to be our answer to this no-guardrails world where there are no gatekeepers and everything’s kind of insane,’ said the CEO of The Onion. “
“In what one journalist called an “insane twist” to the long saga of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ use of his online platform to spread rampant disinformation, satirical newspaper The Onion on Thursday announced it had won an auction to buy Infowars, Jones’ bankrupt publication. ”
“. . . ‘The Onion’s goal with the acquisition is to end Infowars’ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onion’s relentless barrage of humor for good,’ said the company in a press release, which did not state how much The Onion paid for Infowars. ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/infowars-auction
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Article in Daily Kos by Lawrence Lewis, 10/15/24
