11/14/2024

The Onion Wins Auction to Assume Control of Alex Jones’s Infowars

The sale ends Jones’s 25-year run controlling the conspiracy theorist website

The fate of far-right website Infowars will be controlled by The Onion after the satirical news site emerged as the winning bidder of Wednesday’s private auction of the media company founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Infowars and its property are among the personal assets Jones was forced to sell in a court-ordered auction after a bankruptcy judge in June sought to compel Jones to pay the roughly $1.5 billion in damages he owes for claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

Families who filed the Connecticut-based defamation lawsuit against Jones agreed to accept a smaller payout to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, which enabled its success, according to a Thursday statement from the families’ lawyers.

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