{"id":125878,"date":"2024-11-14T21:39:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125878"},"modified":"2024-11-14T21:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:39:45","slug":"the-onion-buys-alex-jones-infowars-with-help-from-sandy-hook-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125878","title":{"rendered":"The Onion buys Alex Jones&#8217; Infowars with help from Sandy Hook families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/alex-jones\">Alex Jones\u2019<\/a><\/span> Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/entertainment-shootings-business-connecticut-alex-jones-c6d0563dc17e7bfa83a881b44e7b9eec\">more than $1 billion in defamation judgments<\/a><\/span> for calling the massacre a hoax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dissolution of Alex Jones\u2019 assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,\u201d Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the 2012 shooting in Connecticut, said in a statement provided by his lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>The Onion acquired the conspiracy theory platform\u2019s website; social media accounts; studio in Austin, Texas; trademarks; and video archive. The sale price was not immediately disclosed. The Onion said its \u201cexclusive launch advertiser\u201d will be the gun violence prevention organization Everytown for Gun Safety. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverytown will continue to raise awareness on InfoWars\u2019 channels about gun violence prevention and present actual solutions to our nation\u2019s gun violence crisis, including bipartisan, common-sense measures and public safety initiatives backed by Everytown,\u201d The Onion said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Jones confirmed The Onion\u2019s acquisition of Infowars in a social media video Thursday and said he planned to file legal challenges to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast broadcast now live from Infowars studios. They are in the building. Are ordering shutdown without court approval,\u201d Jones said on the social platform X.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was broadcasting live from the Infowars studio Thursday morning and appeared distraught, putting his head in his hand at his desk.<\/p>\n<p>Sealed bids for the private auction were opened Wednesday. Both supporters and detractors of Jones had expressed interest in buying Infowars. The other bidders have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The Onion, a satirical site that manages to persuade people to believe the absurd, bills itself as \u201cthe world\u2019s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events\u201d and says it has 4.3 trillion daily readers.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has been saying on his show that if his detractors bought Infowars, he would move his daily broadcasts and product sales to a new studio, websites and social media accounts that he has already set up. He also said that if his supporters won the bidding, he could stay on the Infowars platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives of many of the 20 children and six educators killed in the shooting Jones and his company for defamation and emotional distress for repeatedly saying on his show that the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax staged by crisis actors to spur more gun control. Parents and children of many of the victims testified that they were traumatized by Jones\u2019 conspiracies and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/shootings-texas-connecticut-alex-jones-waterbury-1d8b6f48e5c2dde0f956c9017c709ba4\">threats by his followers.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The lawsuits were filed in Connecticut and Texas. Lawyers for the families in the Connecticut lawsuit said they worked with The Onion to try to acquire Infowars.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones\u2019 Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125878\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}