Area Man Buys Infowars

Here’s some good news from the NYT (Gift Article): The Onion Buys Infowars, Alex Jones’s Site, Out of Bankruptcy. (And they did it with the blessing of the Sandy Hook families who have spent years working to hold Alex Jones to account for the spreading of his sick conspiracy theories.) “The publication plans to reintroduce Infowars in January as a parody of itself, mocking ‘weird internet personalities’ like Mr. Jones who traffic in misinformation and health supplements.” Infowars fans will not get that it’s a parody. So maybe this is a win for everyone.

+ From The Onion: Here’s Why I Decided To Buy InfoWars. “With a shrewd mix of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutrition hacks, they strive to make life both scarier and longer for everyone, a commendable goal … No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds. And yet, in a stroke of good fortune, a formidable special interest group has outwitted the hapless owner of InfoWars (a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name) and forced him to sell it at a steep bargain: less than one trillion dollars.”