Alex Jones, the fake-news guy, signed off for the final time from his fake-news website Infowars on Thursday, and in an epic troll, the site was picked up in a court-ordered bankruptcy sale by the owners of the satirical website The Onion.
“The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased Infowars. We’re planning on making a very stupid website,” Ben Collins, the CEO of The Onion, wrote on social media, announcing the news.
The sale was court-ordered because Jones faces more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for his repeated public insistence that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
The sale included the Infowars website, product inventory, customer lists, social media accounts and intellectual property.
The sale price was not disclosed.
“The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” said Robbie Parker, whose daughter, Emilie, was among the 26 people killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting.
The Onion, in announcing the purchase, noted that the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety will be its “exclusive launch advertiser.”
Jones, in his final broadcast on the site on Thursday, said he would continue to challenge the verdicts against him in court, and vowed to continue to broadcast on other platforms.
“The journey has just begun,” he said.
Actually, no, it’s over.
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