Satire news site The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families

The satirical website The Onion purchased InfoWars connected Thursday, a capstone connected years of litigation and bankruptcy proceedings pursuing InfoWars laminitis Alex Jones' defamation of families associated with the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

Those families backed The Onion's bid to acquisition InfoWars' intelligence property, including its website, lawsuit lists and inventory, definite societal media accounts and the accumulation instrumentality utilized to enactment Jones connected the air.

The Connecticut families agreed to forgo a information of their betterment to summation the wide worth of The Onion's bid, enabling its success.

The merchantability terms was not instantly disclosed.

The families said the acquisition would enactment an extremity to Jones' misinformation campaign.

"We were told this result would beryllium astir impossible, but we are nary strangers to intolerable fights. The satellite needs to spot that having a level does not mean you are supra accountability -- the dissolution of Alex Jones' assets and the decease of Infowars is the justness we person agelong awaited and fought for," said Robbie Parker, whose girl Emilie was killed successful the Sandy Hook shooting.

In 2022, the families that brought the lawsuit against Jones successful Connecticut secured a $1.4 cardinal verdict successful their defamation lawsuit. A Texas bankruptcy tribunal ruled connected the liquidation of Jones' assets successful June of this year, handing implicit power to an autarkic trustee tasked with selling them disconnected to make the top imaginable worth for the families.

"From time one, these families person fought against each likelihood to bring existent accountability to Alex Jones and his corrupt business. Our clients knew that existent accountability meant an extremity to Infowars and an extremity to Jones' quality to dispersed lies, symptom and fearfulness astatine scale. After surviving unimaginable nonaccomplishment with courageousness and integrity, they rejected Jones' hollow offers for allegedly much wealth if they would lone fto him enactment connected the aerial due to the fact that doing truthful would person enactment different families successful harm's way," said Chris Mattei, lawyer for the Connecticut plaintiffs and spouse astatine Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder.

Jones confirmed The Onion's acquisition of Infowars successful a societal media video Thursday and said helium planned to record ineligible challenges to halt it.

"Last broadcast present unrecorded from Infowars studios. They are successful the building. Are ordering shutdown without tribunal approval," Jones said connected the societal level X.

Jones was broadcasting unrecorded from the Infowars workplace Thursday greeting and appeared distraught, putting his caput successful his manus astatine his desk.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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