American satire publication The Onion buys conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction
A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas has ordered a hearing into how the satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars
U.S. satirical news publication The Onion was named the winning bidder for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction Thursday (November 14, 2024), backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Mr. Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the 2012 massacre in the U.S. school a hoax.

The purchase would turn over Mr. Jones’ company, which has peddled conspiracies and misinformation for decades, to a humour website that plans to relaunch the Infowars platform in January 2025 as a parody. But the judge in Mr. Jones’ bankruptcy case said Thursday that he had concerns about how the auction was conducted and ordered a hearing for next week after complaints by lawyers for Mr. Jones and a company affiliated with Mr. Jones that put in a $3.5 million bid.