In an outcome beyond parody, The Onion has bought Infowars

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In an outcome beyond parody, The Onion has bought Infowars

When reality becomes stranger than satire, maybe the satirists can teach us something. The Onion

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on Thursday that its parent company bought Infowars, the disgraced purveyor of Sandy ***** misinformation and

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of pseudoscience supplements. The Onion posted on Bluesky that it plans to transform the rebooted Infowars into “a very funny, very ******* website.”

The Onion says it received the blessing of the families of the victims of the Sandy ***** Elementary School ********* to scoop up Infowars in a bankruptcy auction. Everytown for **** Safety, a nonprofit founded in the massacre’s aftermath, will

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advertise on the rebooted site. Infowars founder Alex Jones was found liable in 2022 for nearly $1.5 billion in damages for spreading *********** theories about the 2012 ********* that ******* 20 children and six ****** staffers.

Elon Musk allowed Jones back on X (

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) last year after the platform “permanently”

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him in 2018 under its previous ownership.

As America’s chief satire publication (at least of those doing so consciously), The Onion’s announcement of the purchase

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. Its tone, hinting at what’s to come, resembled The Colbert Report on steroids (or maybe Jones’ “Survival Shield X-2”

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).

“Founded in 1999 on the heels of the Satanic ‘panic’ and growing steadily ever since, InfoWars has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses,” The Onion wrote in a truth-meets-fiction announcement. “With a shrewd mix of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutrition hacks, they strive to make life both scarier and longer for everyone, a commendable goal. They are a true unicorn, capable of simultaneously inspiring public support for billionaires and stoking outrage at an inept federal state that can ************ JFK but can’t even put a man on the Moon.”

The Onion plans to rebrand Infowars as a parody of itself (more than it already was), poking fun at “weird internet personalities” like Jones, according to The New York Times. Ben Collins, the CEO of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, hasn’t said how much it paid to transform Infowars’ destructive self-parody into constructive satire. (Collins reported extensively on Infowars when covering misinformation at NBC News.) He plans to launch the rebooted site in January.

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