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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 2 days ago

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 2 days ago

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 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago

In a statement, The Onion chief executive Ben Collins said the organisation wanted to replace "Infowars' relentless barrage of disinformation" with the Onion's "relentless barrage of humour".

"The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site's users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash," he said.

[-] Someplaceunknown@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago
[-] gramie@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

As I understand it, some of the parents of the children who were murdered have agreed to drop part of their claim, in exchange for Infowars being sold to The Onion. It's not like they were going to collect the entire 1.5 billion dollars anyway.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

Their new owner is rich as fuck so yeah.

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