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The Onion’s Bid to Buy Infowars Has Been Rejected


But it won’t stop trying to buy Alex Jones’s hub of misinformation.

How fitting that last month’s news that the Onion had bought Alex Jones’s unhinged, conspiracy-peddling media operation, Infowars, in a bankruptcy auction turned out to be inaccurate — or, at the very least, premature. Infowars went bankrupt after losing a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit filed by the families of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, which Jones circulated false theories about. “These families, who have already persevered through countless delays and roadblocks, remain resilient and determined as ever to hold Alex Jones and his corrupt businesses accountable for the harm he has caused,” he said.

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