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Hi friends!
I wanted to give a quick update on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which we can’t wait to relaunch as the dumbest site on the internet.
Long and short of it: We won the bid and — you're not going to believe it — the previous InfoWars folks aren't taking it well.
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On Thursday, the person overseeing the auction told us that The Onion’s bid for InfoWars, along with the Connecticut Sandy Hook families, won.
We haven’t heard anything that changed that — except, of course, from the guys currently running InfoWars, doing InfoWars stuff.
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There was a status conference with the judge overseeing the auction on Thursday shortly after we were deemed winners.
The judge had some questions about process and assets. We’re glad he’s doing that, since our bid with the families is clearly the best and transparency is even better.
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We left the hearing with clear next steps to complete the sale. InfoWars’ current management asked to continue operating until then.
We always knew the guys who currently run InfoWars were going to take this badly and use a loss to fundraise off of it. They did not disappoint!
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Obviously, when the current operators of InfoWars went back to operating as a business, they used that to falsely say the auction had been overturned and allege some truly wacky stuff. Something about Saul Alinsky? God bless ‘em.
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We expected all of this, obviously. Buying this site was always going to be fun later on, but annoying right away.
Anyway, we look forward to completing this process at the next scheduled court date — which, at present, is a week from Monday.
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We think it’s all worth it to make a better, funnier future possible. As always: Tu Stultus Es.
Jones is currently continuing to broadcast because the site and its assets haven't been handed over yet.
Some more details of the ins and outs of the deal here:
https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9
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