The Onion wins Alex Jones’ Infowars auction, backed by Sandy Hook victims

Satirical quality website The Onion has won the bidding for Infowars, Alex Jones’ far-right online outlet known for spreading conspiracy theories, astatine a bankruptcy auction.

The transaction was backed by families of the victims of the 2012 wide shooting astatine Sandy Hook Elementary, though fiscal details person not been disclosed.

The deadliest simple schoolhouse shooting successful U.S. past — which near 26 radical dead, including 20 kids — was repeatedly called a hoax by Jones, a notorious conspiracy theorist who present owes who owes astir $1.5 cardinal to the victims helium defamed.

“The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the decease of Infowars is the justness we person agelong awaited and fought for,” Robbie Parker, the begetter of a young miss killed successful the massacre, said done his lawyers.

The Michael Bloomberg-founded nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates for weapon power and against weapon violence, has been announced arsenic the site’s exclusive motorboat advertiser.

The winning bid means The Onion volition present tally Infowars’ website, trademarks, video archive, societal media accounts, arsenic good a workplace successful Austin, Texas.

“Everytown volition proceed to rise consciousness connected InfoWars’ channels astir weapon unit prevention and contiguous existent solutions to our nation’s weapon unit crisis, including bipartisan, common-sense measures and nationalist information initiatives backed by Everytown,” The Onion said successful a statement.

In a video posted connected X connected Thursday, Jones said that “the Connecticut Democrats with The Onion newspaper” had won the bidding. He vowed to situation the acquisition successful court.

With News Wire Services