This should be interesting, The Onion wins bid for Alex Jones Media.

[MLAA]

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/nov/14/satirical-outlet-the-onion-has-bought-alex-jones-i/

[jmbar2]

1. Where'd they get the money?

Wasn't The Onion on the verge of folding recently?

[MLAA]

4. I found this update

G/O Media, a private-equity backed firm that has owned The Onion since 2019, sold the site to a new Chicago-based firm called Global Tetrahedron, which is “made up of four digital media veterans with a profound love for The Onion and comedy-based content,” G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller said in a memo to staff Thursday.Apr 26, 2024

[hunter]

6. The Onion was bought by Jeff Lawson, a tech guy billionaire...

... who built a lot of the communications infrastructure supporting "cloud" based industries like Uber and Airbnb.

[Geechie]

11. Bargain basement! nt

[LearnedHand]

2. Wow. Just a little too much infinite regression here

Is this The Onion or is this *really* The Onion?

[MLAA]

3. ...

[Duncanpup]

5. I love it

[MLAA]

10. Hey, Duncpup.

[peregrinus]

7. Inception

[DavidDvorkin]

8. There is a satirical article in the Onion saying this, indirectly

The article is about Global Tetrahedron buying Infowars. GT is a fictitious corporation invented by The Onion.

I think someone thought it was real.

[Geechie]

9. A letter from the CEO

https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/]

Worth reading — just be careful if you’re drinking coffee or you might ruin your screen!

[blogslug]

12. It's real

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna179936

Nov. 14, 2024, 9:03 AM EST
By Brandy Zadrozny and Erik Ortiz

The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably InfoWars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones' primary online platform.

Jones announced the sale on X Thursday morning.

"I just got word 15 minutes ago that my lawyers and folks met with the U.S. trustee over our bankruptcy this morning and they said they are shutting us down even without a court order this morning," Jones said.

"The Connecticut democrats with The Onion newspaper bought us," he added.

The Onion plans to shutter Jones' InfoWars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale...

Also:

Hi everyone.

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.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2024-11-14T14:09:47.974Z