The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction - NBC News
17 hours ago · Since April, The Onion has been led by chief executive Ben Collins, who previously covered disinformation and conspiracy theories for NBC News, a beat that often meant covering Jones.
The Onion’s Infowars Acquisition Is “Karmic Justice” at Its Finest
9 hours ago · While Ben Collins, The Onion CEO and former disinformation reporter, tells Vanity Fair that the takeover is “maybe the funniest joke of all time,” the move has also garnered a sense of ...
The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars with help ... - Associated Press News
17 hours ago · Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron said satirical news publication won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.
How Alex Jones’ Infowars wound up in the hands of The Onion
11 hours ago · Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron said satirical news publication won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
17 hours ago · The satirical news site intends to turn Infowars into a parody of itself. But the court overseeing the bankruptcy put a hold on the sale pending a hearing next week. ... Ben Collins, the chief ...
Why The Onion bought InfoWars: CEO Ben Collins explains
2 hours ago · Behind the deal is the relatively new leader of the Onion, Ben Collins, a Massachusetts native, former star NBC News reporter, and self-described “Masshole” who said he saw the opportunity to ...
Alex Jones' Infowars bought by The Onion in bankruptcy auction
14 hours ago · The Onion CEO Ben Collins covered Jones and Infowars while working as a journalist at NBC. In June, Collins posted a meme of Elon Musk saying he was “looking into it,” in reference to ...
The Onion buys Alex Jones's Infowars at auction - BBC
16 hours ago · “We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website,” said Ben Collins, a former NBC News journalist who is chief executive of The Onion’s parent company, in a statement.
Not a parody: The Onion acquires Alex Jones’s InfoWars in auction
12 hours ago · The Onion CEO Ben Collins confirmed the sale on Thursday, saying that it took place with the backing of Sandy Hook families. ... The Onion is a parody website that publishes satirical news stories ...
Why the Onion Decided to Buy Alex Jones’s Infowars - New York …
10 hours ago · The idea for the Onion to buy Infowars began, naturally enough, as a joke. Last June, the satirical website’s new CEO, Ben Collins, saw that a federal bankruptcy judge had ordered Alex Jones to ...