The Onion is buying Infowars after the outlet shuttered amid Alex Jones' repayment to the families of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.

The parody website The Onion bought conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' InfoWars brand and website in a bankruptcy auction, according to court documents filed Thursday. (Reporting by Dietrich Knauth) Copyright 2024 Thomson Reuters.

The sale ends Jones’s 25-year run controlling the conspiracy theorist website that peddled claims the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “hoax.”

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.

Satirical news site The Onion won the auction to acquire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars, which was sold off as part of a defamation settlement after he falsely called the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax.

The entity behind the satirical news site The Onion, along with families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, are on tap to purchase right-wing provocateur Alex Jones’ Infowars website.

Infowars, the far-right conspiracy theory outlet driven into bankruptcy over lies founder Alex Jones spread about the Sandy Hook massacre, has a new owner: satirical news site The Onion. The Onion, whose parent company is Global Tetraheron,