The Onion, the satirical news outlet, wants to buy Infowars, the platform conspiracy theorist Alex Jones used to defame families of the Sandy Hook massacre. Onion CEO Ben Collins shares why and ...

The Onion, a satirical news company mocking current events and news personalities, purchased Alex Jones’ Infowars network in a bankruptcy auction Thursday held to help pay off a nearly $1.5 ...

Infowars was put up for auction by court order. Alex Jones owes more than $1 billion to the families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims. ... First United American Companies LLC, ...

First United American bid $3.5 million in cash and was expected to let Jones stay at Infowars. Despite the lower cash offer by The Onion, the trustee chose it as the auction winner, saying its ...

The proceeds will be distributed to Infowars’ creditors, with the large majority going to the Sandy Hook families who won a series of enormous judgments, roughly totaling $1.5 billion, against ...

The Onion was named the winning bidder for Infowars in a November auction but Jones and First American United Cos. , the Jones-affiliated company, had argued the sale process was tainted because ...

The sale of InfoWars, Alex Jones' right-wing conspiracy site, to The Onion could be held up in court after a judge questioned the transparency of the auction process Thursday.

A bankruptcy judge scrutinizing The Onion’s bid for Alex Jones ’ Infowars platform was expected to hear a second day of testimony Tuesday after an auctioneer defended the satirical news outlet ...

Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families’ backing Jones owes the families more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the 2012 ...

A judge overseeing the Infowars website sale said he no longer wants the asset to be sold through bankruptcy to the Onion By Akiko Matsuda Updated Feb. 5, 2025 6:20 pm ET | WSJ Pro ...

The sale of Infowars is part of Jones’ personal bankruptcy case, which he filed in late 2022 after he was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in defamation lawsuits in Connecticut and Texas filed ...