The Onion launches new bid to take over Alex Jones' Infowars and turn it into a parody platform
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The Onion launches new bid to take over Alex Jones' Infowars and turn it into a parody platform
""We'll build this into a bigger comedy network," Collins said, adding the Sandy Hook families would receive profits from the new operations."
""A big part of it for us is that the way people consume news now is they see somebody who has no idea what the (expletive) they're talking about staring into their camera and just like coming up with conspiracy theories or telling you health hacks that will actually get you poisoned, things like that.""
The Onion aims to acquire an exclusive, temporary license for Infowars' intellectual property as Alex Jones faces liquidation due to defamation judgments. The proposal, pending approval, would allow The Onion to produce content on Infowars' platforms. CEO Ben Collins stated that the new operations would generate profits for Sandy Hook families. The Onion plans to create comedic characters and scenarios reflecting the nature of conspiracy theories prevalent in media today.
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