Infowars, a right-wing conspiracy website, is being acquired by The Onion, a satirical news publication.
In Connecticut, families who lost children in the Sandy Hook massacre have secured a $1.4 billion defamation verdict against Infowars founder Alex Jones.
‘The Onion’ announced on Thursday that their winning bid has the support of these families. The sale price was not disclosed.
‘The Onion’ anticipates the introduction of a new platform for Infowars in January. According to Collins, the new management team is likely to archive the extant Infowars content in a less public location and remove it from the site.
Infowars’s parent company was placed into bankruptcy by the far-right media presenter and provocateur, who subsequently filed for personal bankruptcy in 2022 after years of costly litigation with the families of Sandy Hook victims.
Jones was ordered to pay $965 million in damages for his repeated assertions on Infowars that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a government hoax.
Subsequently, he was required to pay an additional $473 million in punitive damages.
Jones was sued by eight families of the deceased and a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent for making false statements about the massacre at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, where a gunman murdered 20 children and six adults.
Chris Mattei, an attorney for the Connecticut families, stated that the families had previously declined Jones’s offer to resolve for $55 million over a 10-year period while permitting him to remain on the air.
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