After calling the Sandy Hook school shooting a “hoax”, conspiracy theorist and right-wing extremist Alex Jones owes more than $1 billion in compensation to the families of the victims. Jones filed for bankruptcy barely two months after the Sandy Hook verdict. Now the families of the victims have helped the satirical media The Onion to buy Jones’ website InfoWars at a bankruptcy auction, writes AP. InfoWars under Alex Jones’ rule is thus history. – The death of InfoWars is the justice I have long waited for and fought for. That’s what Robbie Parker says, who lost his daughter Emilie in the massacre in Connecticut in 2012, according to his lawyer. Confirms purchase Jones confirms The Onion’s acquisition of InfoWars on social media. He says he plans to challenge the closure, AP reports. – I don’t know what is happening, but I will be here until they turn off the lights, says Alex Jones in a video published on the website, adding that the purchase “is an attack on freedom of expression”. Thursday evening Norwegian time, the website is out of service. The Onion is based in Chicago and is managed by Bryce P. Tetraeder. The media is known for making fun of conspiracy theorists such as Alex Jones. According to The Onion, the plan is to boil the InfoWars brand down to making fun of “weird internet personalities” like Alex Jones, who spread false information. Photo: Jill Bleed / AP In a press release on the website, he writes the following about the purchase – with a certain ironic distance: Global Tatrahedron.” The Onion plans to relaunch InfoWars in January, as a parody of itself, write the New York Times. Lawyers for the families in the Sandy Hook case have stated that they collaborated with The Onion to buy Infowars, reports AP. Calling the massacre a “hoax” Jones founded InfoWars in 1999, and has used the site to spread conspiracy theories and fake news. For years he claimed that the school massacre at Sandy Hook children’s school was fabricated and staged by gun opponents, before he finally admitted in court that the claims were untrue. Several of the victims’ relatives sued Jones and his company for defamation and psychological distress because of this. In court, several people testified that they were traumatized by the conspiracy theories of Jones and that they received threats from his followers. Published 14.11.2024, at 17.09 Updated 14.11.2024, at 17.31
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