Did The Onion Buy Infowars?
Claim: On the 13th November 2024 The Onion bought Infowars at a bankruptcy auction. Reuters: True Reuters say: NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Like a headline lifted from the Onion, …
Claim:
On the 13th November 2024 The Onion bought Infowars at a bankruptcy auction.
Reuters: True
Reuters say:
NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Like a headline lifted from the Onion, the parody news website is buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars in a bankruptcy auction.
“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,” the Onion CEO Ben Collins said in a statement.
We say: False
Justification:
The sale did not go through, despite Alex Jones and his crew being evicted from the company premises and the businesses operation ceased, the Infowars business was returned to Alex Jones. He reentered the building Friday 15th restarted the radio/satellite broadcasts, supplement sales, news website and online streaming.
‘We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,‘ … ‘No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction,’ said US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez.
The Judge blocked the sale of Infowars to The Onion, and gave ownership back to Jones.
Alex Jones broadcast a show on Friday stating that The Onion had not bought Infowars, and that the Auction was not an Auction, and instead was replaced with a private sale. He said in that private sale the purchaser had not put up any money, but instead pledged the potential of Alex’s future earnings towards the cost of the purchase.
This private sale violated the Judge’s orders and was conducted without his knowledge or approval.
Reuters have not changed their article or published a follow-up.
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Reuters Sale article on the sale:
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Associated Press article on the Judge blocking the sale:
https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-auction-onion-how-d42e7b2c916205b348628686c8b8dd4a
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Global News article on the Judge blocking the sale:
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Infowars article on the sale:
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