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There's nothing quite like a good humiliation for one of the world's biggest bullshitters and troublemakers, Alex Jones. Karma's a bitch, ain't it?
This is the asshole who claimed that the Sandy Hook massacre was faked with "crisis actors" and hounded victims , the alleged crisis actors, to try and prove his point. Well, these victims had teeth, fought back in court and now he's lost his pride and joy: his very popular propaganda website. I promise you that this will hurt more than the vast $1.4 billion fine that he got on top of it. Heck, that's so large that it would even make vast, faceless corporations like Apple and Microsoft sit up and take notice, let alone an individual. No wonder he's bankrupt.
The only downside I see to this is that it's most likely to sit behind a paywall like The Onion does nowadays.
This is the asshole who claimed that the Sandy Hook massacre was faked with "crisis actors" and hounded victims , the alleged crisis actors, to try and prove his point. Well, these victims had teeth, fought back in court and now he's lost his pride and joy: his very popular propaganda website. I promise you that this will hurt more than the vast $1.4 billion fine that he got on top of it. Heck, that's so large that it would even make vast, faceless corporations like Apple and Microsoft sit up and take notice, let alone an individual. No wonder he's bankrupt.
The satirical news outlet the Onion has purchased Infowars, the rightwing media platform run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, at a court-ordered auction.
The news was confirmed on Thursday morning in a video by Jones himself, as well as the head of the Onion’s parent company.
“I just got word 15 minutes ago that my lawyers and folks met with the US trustee over our bankruptcy this morning, and they said they are shutting us down even without a court order this morning,” Jones said in a video shared on X. “The Connecticut Democrats with the Onion newspaper bought us.”
The Onion plans to rebuild the website and feature well-known internet humor writers and content creators.
CEO Ben Collins confirmed this in a post on Bluesky on Thursday, writing: “The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
The only downside I see to this is that it's most likely to sit behind a paywall like The Onion does nowadays.
The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’
Satirical news outlet purchases media platform run by Alex Jones at a court-ordered auction
www.theguardian.com