By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-14 16:53:39 | Updated at 2024-11-28 03:47:24
1 week ago
Satire slinger The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families
Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | November 14, 2024 | AP Bitter LOSERS
Posted on 11/14/2024 8:35:06 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday.
"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 disclosed.
Jones confirmed The Onion's acquisition of Infowars in a social media video Thursday and said he planned to file legal challenges to stop it. An email message seeking comment was sent to Infowars.
It was not immediately clear what The Onion planned to do with the conspiracy theory platform, including its website, social media accounts, studio in Austin, Texas, trademarks and video archive. The Chicago-based Onion did not immediately return emails seeking comment Thursday.
Sealed bids for the private auction were opened Wednesday. Both supporters and detractors of Jones had expressed interest in buying Infowars. The other bidders have not been disclosed.
The Onion, a satirical site that manages to persuade people to believe the absurd, bills itself as “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. He also said that if his supporters won the bidding, he could stay on the Infowars platforms.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: alexjones; infowars; onion; sandyhook; theonion
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Infowars without Jones is like project veritas without O’Keefe.
2 posted on 11/14/2024 8:37:31 AM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
To: cableguymn
Infowars without Jones is like project veritas without O’Keefe.
Like a foot without a big toe.
3 posted on 11/14/2024 8:40:36 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I didn’t follow this story at all......did he REALLY say that There Was NO CHIDREN KILLED AT SANDY HOOK SCHOOL??<P.If he did say that....WHY WOULD HE SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
4 posted on 11/14/2024 8:45:28 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: cableguymn
or drudge without Drudge....ok maybe bad example :)
5 posted on 11/14/2024 8:47:36 AM PST by xp38
To: dfwgator
6 posted on 11/14/2024 8:48:47 AM PST by GMThrust
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