The Onion confirmed on Thursday that its parent company bought Infowars, the disgraced purveyor of Sandy Hook misinformation and vendor of pseudoscience supplements. The Onion posted on Bluesky that it plans to transform the rebooted Infowars into “a very funny,

The Onion is buying Infowars after the outlet shuttered amid Alex Jones' repayment to the families of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.

The sale ends Jones’s 25-year run controlling the conspiracy theorist website that peddled claims the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “hoax.”

Alex Jones on Thursday remained defiant when reacting to the news that The Onion had bought his Infowars platform. Infowars and most of its assets hit the auction block on Wednesday, leaving Jones waiting to see whether he'll be permitted to remain on its online platforms or face removal.

The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably Infowars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones’ primary online platform.

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -Like a headline befitting the Onion, the parody news website is buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars in a bankruptcy auction. The Onion said in a statement on Thursday it aims to replace "Infowars' relentless barrage of disinformation" with the Onion's "noticeably less hateful disinformation.

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.