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The satirical news publication The Onion was named the winning bidder for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction Thursday, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax._ --- Nov 15, 2024 9:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [‘Do You Know What Perjury Is?’ Lawyer Alleges Alex Jones Lied in Sandy Hook Case](/video/ozX7CgxB/) ### ‘Do You Know What Perjury Is?’ Lawyer Alleges Alex Jones Lied in Sandy Hook Case [Apple Cracked Down on Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones, Then Facebook and YouTube Followed](/video/Pkyar5iZ/) ### Apple Cracked Down on Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones, Then Facebook and YouTube Followed [Alex Jones Leaks Megyn Kelly Tape, Threatening to Post the Full Interview](/video/gkgIdm1R/) ### Alex Jones Leaks Megyn Kelly Tape, Threatening to Post the Full Interview --- ## Transcript I had known some of the lawyers for the SandigoFamily, so I gave Ming and I was like, What does this look like? How do we actually do this? And they gave us some information about how to get this moving. So then we thought we could make a bid here, and the families decided they would effectively join our bid, back our bid. Um, to try to get over the finish line, because by the end of the day, it was us or Alex Jones who could either continue this website unabated, basically unpunished for what he's done to these families over the years, or we can make a dumb, stupid website. And we decided to do the second thing. Now, thankfully, you know, every town partnered with us on the launch of this thing. They were founded after Sandyhook as a response to Sandyhook. They've long loved the onion because we have this iconic headline that we publish every time there's a mass shooting. It says, There's no way to stop this says only nation where this regularly happens, we've published it 37 times verbatim after every mass shooting. Every town knows the power of that specific article, and we thought this might be a good partnership. Let's take over this thing. A good way to put ads on top of the dumbest website in the world that we've just acquired. And thankfully, we won. We're still a little bit in shock, but here we are. We own the Union owns InfoWars. You know, when you think about the unmitigated harm that Alex Jones and InfoWars brought to Sandy hook families, it's just poetic justice that now every town and the onion together will open a new chapter on Info Wars and a chapter that is devoted to the issue of gun safety. This is an opportunity to actually staunch the flood of misinformation and talk straight to people about facts, about research, about data, and do it in a way with the onions creativity that will land in as common sense. We are very excited about what we can do this thing. Um, the onion is best when it sort of meets the media moment and has, you know, done that for the last 35 years of its existence. You know, first, it was newspapers, and then it was the onion News Network, which went after cable news in its own way. And now we clearly have a new media ecosystem where people try to scare you all day about the big scary forces that are holding you down and try to fix that with supplements or try to fix that one weird trick products that they sell to you in their podcasts and on their Instagram accounts and in their TikTok pages. We're going to go after all, like, every facet of alternative media. That is trying to get you addicted to stupid stuff. Like there's a whole world of podcasters and TikTok influencers who have some really curious ideas of the world. And I also think that we're learning right now that their followings are just as big, if not bigger than traditional celebrities. And they've gone unmcked. They've gone they got a free pass to this point, and we don't think that that's fair. Humor is one of the most effective ways to reach people and to actually combat misinformation. And so that's why we're all in. That's why this made perfect sense to us. In the view of American life, you know, these people are pure victims, and it's true. Like, they've gone through so much, and it's horrible. They're also human beings. And they also like to laugh at things, and they also like fun and good things to happen in the world. And they put their weight behind this because they realized this was a very good prank. And a very good prank with a very long tail that might last for a very long time. And we are proud to do our duty as good Americans and use our jesters privilege and get weird of it on their behalf. I think that the families are so relieved that the misinformation, the painful, cruel misinformation that has been visited upon them will be staunched. This is turning a chapter and turning a chapter on a very, very painful moment. 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