The Onion buys conspiracy website Infowars after $1.5b ruling against founder Alex Jones
The Onion buys conspiracy website Infowars after $1.5b ruling against founder Alex Jones
Alex Jones owes $1.5 billion after defaming the families of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, claiming it was a hoax staged by crisis actors.
In short:
The satirical news website The Onion, which claims to have 4.3 trillion daily readers, will partner with a gun violence prevention organisation to relaunch the conspiracy website, Infowars.
Infowars' founder Alex Jones claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax conducted by crisis actors.
What's next?
Jones has vowed to file legal challenges to stop The Onion taking his site.
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The Onion has money?
As I understand it, some of the parents of the children who were murdered have agreed to drop part of their claim, in exchange for Infowars being sold to The Onion. It's not like they were going to collect the entire 1.5 billion dollars anyway.
Their new owner is rich as fuck so yeah.