The Onion and Sandy Hook victims’ families buy Alex Jones’ Infowars, with hopes to make it “very funny, very stupid”

nme.com:

The Onion has purchased Infowars with the help of the families of Sandy Hook victims – and they are hoping to make it “very funny” and “very stupid”.Infowars is a right-wing media platform that was run by Alex Jones – a conspiracy theorist who falsely claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut was a hoax staged by crisis actors to spur more gun control.The shooting killed 20 first-graders and six educators, and following his comments, Jones faced multiple lawsuits from the families of the victims.

He was ordered by courts to liquidate his personal assets to help pay off the $1.4billion sum (via AP News).Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2022, and Infowars went to a bankruptcy auction, where it was bought by The Onion.

The news of the acquisition was shared this morning (November 14) in both a video by Jones, and in a post from the head of The Onion’s parent company.According to the update from the latter, The Onion is looking to rebuild the site and have well-known humour writers and content creators feature on it.

It has also been confirmed that the sale was made possible with help from the Sandy Hook victims’ families.Also, part of the reason we did bought InfoWars is because people on Bluesky told us it would be funny to buy InfoWars.