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Fortune
Chris Morris

The Onion buys InfoWars. Really.

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InfoWars has a new owner—and it’s likely not who anyone expected.

The Onion, the satirical news site whose headlines include "CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years" and "Kitten Thinks of Nothing but Murder All Day," has bought the conspiracy-theory website and more founded by Alex Jones. And in a twist that sounds ripped from the site’s own headlines, the families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting helped the deal come together.

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