11-14-2024, 10:55 AM
Well, it looks like The Onion has won the bid; infowars.com is currently offline.
It sort of feels like the end of an era. Where will we get our Bone Broth? I bought their nascent iodine supplement once; it was pretty good.
Quote:The Onion Says It Has Bought Infowars, Alex Jones’s Site, Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
The Onion, a satirical publication that skewers newsmakers and current events, said on Thursday that it had won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Infowars, a website founded and operated by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
The Onion said that the bid was sanctioned by the families of the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who in 2022 won a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit against Mr. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems.
...The Onion plans to relaunch Infowars in January as a parody of itself, he said, mocking “weird internet personalities” like Mr. Jones who traffic in misinformation and health supplements.
“We thought this would be a hilarious joke,” Mr. Collins said. “This is going to be our answer to this no-guardrails world where there are no gatekeepers and everything’s kind of insane.”
...The plan is to relaunch it next year with an approach reminiscent of Clickhole, The Onion’s sister site that poked fun at “listicles” from BuzzFeed and other purveyors of viral content.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/busin...onion.html
Archive link: https://archive.ph/hXLKQ
It sort of feels like the end of an era. Where will we get our Bone Broth? I bought their nascent iodine supplement once; it was pretty good.
