If I was The Onion, I would not have announced this. I would have slowly started slipping normal sane reporting into the site until it was fully converted. I’m guessing those visitors probably haven’t seen truthful news in awhile.

theonion.info has all you need to know.

Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming with ads. Not just ads, but scams! Not just scams, but lies with no object, free radical misinformation, sentences and images so poorly thought out that they are unhealthy even to view for just a few seconds. The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact.

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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.

This brings me so much joy.

The Onion will also sell Infowars merchandise and share the proceeds with the Sandy Hook families.

I'm grateful to The Onion for many reasons throughout the recent decades. And it seems I have a new reason to add to the list.

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.

This is quite a paradox. It's a true story, not satire, meaning that it does belong on /c/nottheonion; and I would indeed look at the headline and think "That has got to be a story from The Onion, America's Finest News Source." But it's definitely about the satire newspaper and website The Onion, which is explicitly what this community is not about. It says so in the name!

Alex Jones has not commented on the Onion’s new plan to take over Infowars.

Heh

I subscribed (actual money) to the Onion when the original deal went down. Glad I continue to do so, they do good work.

My apologies for the downvote. The article used their instead of there and it’s quite a terrible website in terms of ads. Not a lot of substance to the article I regret my click.

Does this fit for NotTheOnion? It specifically is The Onion. Not complaining or anything, just had the thought.

Hoping they'll do a series on all the times alex jones said god talks to him and tells him what time it is.

It is fitting for the world's leading satirical news outlet to take control over info wars in their global war on info.

How long do you think it'll take the people who visit the site to realize it's satire now? If ever?

Give dan the desk

license the Infowars website and its associated intellectual property from Gregory Milligan, who was appointed by a bankruptcy court to manage the website, for $1,800 a month

So the money goes to the victims, right?

and Jones could appeal any ruling

nooooooooo!

I pray to Jah that this really happens.