The Onion has reached an agreement in its long-standing bid to take over the Infowars conspiracy website founded by right-wing broadcaster Alex Jones.The satirical news outlet plans to license the Infowars website and its associated intellectual property from Gregory Milligan, who was appointed by a...
The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, won a 2024 bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, but a judge voided those results, saying their was a lack of transparency in the deal.
If the licensing agreement receives court approval, The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site satirizing its conspiratorial origins, and comedian Tim Heidecker has been hired as creative director.
“I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” said Heidecker, one of the creative forces behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.
The fact this deal was ever able to be blocked in the first place is indisputable proof that the law has always been on the side of the fascists.
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