By DAVE COLLINS 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.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’ Infowars At Auction With Help From Sandy Hook Families
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Thu, 11/14/2024 - 7:13am
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- The Onion buys Alex Jones's InfoWars in auction with the help of Sandy Hook families: How we got here
The satirical outlet has acquired InfoWars, the website founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was ordered to put it up for auction to pay the more than $1 billion he owes to the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.
11/14/2024 - 4:25 am | View Link - The Onion to acquire InfoWars from bankruptcy
The US satirical website on Thursday said that it had won the bankruptcy auction for the media business controlled by Jones, the controversial right-wing media influencer. “The Onion is proud to acquire InfoWars,
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