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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 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 Thursday provided by his lawyers.

The Onion acquired the conspiracy theory platform’s website; social media accounts; studio in Austin, Texas; trademarks; and video archive. The sale price was not immediately disclosed. The Onion said its “exclusive launch advertiser” will be the gun violence prevention organization Everytown for Gun Safety.

The Infowars website appeared to be down Thursday morning. Jones was angry and defiant on his live broadcast before announcing that his show was being shut down and signing off. Jones vowed to challenge the sale and auction process in court and said he would resume his broadcasts from a new studio using websites and social media accounts he said were already set up.

Interesting turn of events.  Not a big fan of Alex Jones, but he was a bit of a broken clock, right every once in a while. 
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Re: Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction.....
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2024, 02:09:14 PM »
Sandy-Hook-denial and slandering the grieving parents and family was not one of those getting-it-right moments.

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The Onion said its “exclusive launch advertiser” will be the gun violence prevention organization Everytown for Gun Safety.

Was this announcement satire or stupidity?
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction.....
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2024, 02:31:39 PM »
Sandy-Hook-denial and slandering the grieving parents and family was not one of those getting-it-right moments.

Agree 1000%.  Thinking more along the lines of camping outside the Bilderburg meetings every year, and a couple of others that have been too long ago to remember.
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Was this announcement satire or stupidity?

Not sure, given the source (The Onion itself)

Speaking of source, I seem to have forgotten the article. 

https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9
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Re: Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction.....
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2024, 02:38:47 PM »
...Was this announcement satire or stupidity?


Stupidity. The entirety of "the left" together aren't smart enough for a sense of humor.
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