When reality gets weirder than satire, maybe satirists can teach us something. Or maybe they’ll have the last laugh. Onion he said Purchased by the parent company on Thursday Infowarsshameful Purveyor of Sandy Hook disinformation and seller pseudoscience supplements. Onion He said he plans to replace the restarts in Bluesky Infowars “to a very funny, very stupid website”. However, the Texas judge overseeing the bankruptcy sale temporarily halted the purchase, citing concerns about the auction process. A review meeting will be scheduled for next week.
Onion The families of those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have been blessed, he said. Infowars at a bankruptcy auction. Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization founded in the wake of the massacre, reported plans to advertise on the relaunched site if the sale is finalized.
Infowars founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay an estimated $1.5 billion in 2022 in damages for spreading conspiracy theories about the 2012 shooting that killed 20 children and six senior employees.
after Onion‘s triumphal announcement on Thursday, the AP informed A U.S. Bankruptcy Judge has called an evidentiary hearing to review the auction that led to the seizure of Christopher Lopez. Christopher Murray, the trustee overseeing the auction, reportedly said in court Onion‘s parent company Global Tetrahedron did not submit the highest bid in cash. However, the sale price included a clause in which some Sandy Hook families would give up a portion of their proceeds to pay Jones’ other creditors. Murray said Global Tetrahedron’s offer was the best, despite having a lower (undisclosed) amount of money for the deal.
The only other bidder was First United American Companies, which operated a website that used Jones’ name to sell its supplements. The company made a $3.5 million winning bid in a cash-only secret auction. First United’s lawyer told a judge on Thursday that the trustee changed the auction process days earlier, skipping the final round on Wednesday that would have given the sides a chance to outbid each other.
The trustee chose only from sealed bids submitted last week. However, he described the final round as optional, saying his decision was in line with Judge Lopez’s auction rules in September.
Lopez expressed dissatisfaction in court and questioned the sale. “We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to find out exactly what happened,” the judge said. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”
Elon Musk Allowed Jones to return to X (Twitter) “permanent” after the platform last year is prohibited In previous ownership in 2018.
As America’s premier satire publication (at least those who do so consciously) Onion‘s (perhaps premature) purchase announcement remained in the brand. It seemed like a hint of things to come The Colbert Report on steroids – or Jones’ “Survival Shield X-2” pills.
“Established in the wake of the satanic ‘panic’ of 1999 and growing steadily ever since, InfoWars distinguished as an indispensable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses.” Onion wrote in the truth fiction ad. “With a clever mix of mind-boggling paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutritional tricks, they’re trying to make life both scary and long for everyone, which is a laudable goal. They are also real unicorns, capable of inspiring public support for billionaires and infuriating an incompetent federal state that could assassinate JFK but couldn’t even put a man on the moon.
If the sale is still in his hands, Onion plans to rebrand Infowars as a parody of itself (even more so than before), poking fun at “weird internet personalities” like Jones. The New York Times. Global Tetrahedron CEO Ben Collins wouldn’t say how much it paid to turn Infowars’ destructive self-parody into constructive satire. (Gives extensive information about Collins Infowars while covering disinformation NBC News.) He plans to launch the relaunched site in January.
Update November 15, 2024 at 1:47 PM ET: This story was updated to reflect that the finality of the sale was placed in limbo in a court hearing following the announcement.
