- Infowars founder Alex Jones claimed last week’s auction victory by The Onion was a hoax
- The Onion CEO Ben Collins re-confirmed the auction victory following Jones’ hoax claims
- Collins reiterated the intention of The Onion to turn Infowars into the “dumbest site on the internet”
The Onion are intent on relaunching Infowars as the “dumbest site on the internet” (there are many who would argue it was already that, but that’s by the by) despite Alex Jones’ claims that last week’s bankruptcy auction, in which the famed parody site purchased Infowars, was in fact a hoax.
The court-ordered auction came after Jones declared bankruptcy, following the lawsuit brought against him by the families of the Sandy Hook massacre victims.
Despite originally confirming that the far-right conspiracy theory site had been purchased by The Onion, in a live broadcast on X, Jones then once more took to social media and said, “I just got word 15 minutes ago that my lawyers and folks met with the US trustee over our bankruptcy this morning, and they said they are shutting us down even without a court order this morning. The Connecticut Democrats with the Onion newspaper bought us.”
Taking to X, Collins said, “Hi friends! I wanted to give a quick update on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which we can’t wait to relaunch as the dumbest site on the internet. Long and short of it: We won the bid and — you’re not going to believe it — the previous InfoWars folks aren’t taking it well.”
Continuing the thread, Collins added, “On Thursday, the person overseeing the auction told us that The Onion’s bid for InfoWars, along with the Connecticut Sandy Hook families, won. We haven’t heard anything that changed that — except, of course, from the guys currently running InfoWars, doing InfoWars stuff.
“There was a status conference with the judge overseeing the auction on Thursday shortly after we were deemed winners. The judge had some questions about process and assets. We’re glad he’s doing that, since our bid with the families is clearly the best and transparency is even better.”
In a lengthy statement, Collins continued, “We left the hearing with clear next steps to complete the sale. InfoWars’ current management asked to continue operating until then. We always knew the guys who currently run InfoWars were going to take this badly and use a loss to fundraise off of it. They did not disappoint!
“Obviously, when the current operators of InfoWars went back to operating as a business, they used that to falsely say the auction had been overturned and allege some truly wacky stuff. Something about Saul Alinsky? God bless ‘em. We expected all of this, obviously. Buying this site was always going to be fun later on, but annoying right away. Anyway, we look forward to completing this process at the next scheduled court date — which, at present, is a week from Monday.
“We think it’s all worth it to make a better, funnier future possible. As always: Tu Stultus Es.”
Jones, meanwhile, has taken to posting and reposting on X about Elon Musk becoming involved with helping his case, while still claiming the entire sale process was a hoax.
We can only imagine this story is going to continue to get more and more *normal as the days and weeks go by.
*completely bats**t insane.
