The Onion, a satirical news site that satirizes current affairs and the journalists who cover it, said on Thursday that it had won the bankruptcy auction to control Infowars and other media outlets founded by Alex Jones, a far-right peddler of conspiracy theories.
Representatives from The Onion told the New York Times that its bid was sanctioned by the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, who successfully sued Jones for $1.4 billion in a defamation lawsuit. The families sued Jones after he falsely claimed that the shooting was a false flag to justify the confiscation of Americans' firearms.
