The sale price was not immediately disclosed.
FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families ofwhom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday.
It was not immediately clear what The Onion planned to do with the conspiracy theory platform, including its website, social media accounts, studio in Austin, Texas, trademarks and video archive. The Chicago-based Onion did not immediately return emails seeking comment Thursday. The Onion, a satirical site that manages to persuade people to believe the absurd, bills itself as "the world's leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events" and says it has 4.3 trillion daily readers.
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