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The Onion buys conspiracy website Infowars after $1.5b ruling against founder Alex Jones (www.abc.net.au)

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In short:

The satirical news website The Onion, which claims to have 4.3 trillion daily readers, will partner with a gun violence prevention organisation to relaunch the conspiracy website, Infowars.

Infowars' founder Alex Jones claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax conducted by crisis actors.

What's next?

Jones has vowed to file legal challenges to stop The Onion taking his site.

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[–] trk@aussie.zone 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is there any possible layer of satire The Onion could add to the site to make it more of a joke though??

[–] darthsid@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m sure the editors at the onion are up for the challenge. I imagine a scenario where they turn infowars to a legit news outlet. It would be hilarious 😆

[–] PuppyAttack@lemmus.org 22 points 1 week ago

The Onion presenting absurd stories seriously while Infowars does legit news in the style of a conspiracy nut sounds amazing.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

It would be hard to top the gay frogs thing, but I'm sure they've got some ideas.