The Onion has purchased and will control Infowars in their bankruptcy auction.
So basically nothing will change. Fake news will be swapped for a different brand of fake news.
At least it will still be good for a laugh.
Very interesting. I'm an avowed Alex Jones hater, so this is an unexpected twist.
That said, the more humor, the better.
In reply to Toyman! :
Except that only North Korea takes the Onion seriously.
It must be difficult for the Onion to make up more outrageous news than the E36 M3 that's actually happening everyday.
Toyman! said:So basically nothing will change. Fake news will be swapped for a different brand of fake news.
At least it will still be good for a laugh.
The difference is that one will be tongue in cheek satire and the other was hateful purposeful misinformation that pretended to be real.
It's a great way to neuter Infowars. Love it.
From the BBC: “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.
The auction is still going. If anyone wants to look.
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02Pilot said:From the BBC: “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.
Then it's in good hands.
The Onion's official statement on the purchase 
NickD said:It must be difficult for the Onion to make up more outrageous news than the E36 M3 that's actually happening everyday.
It's a lot of fun to mix The Onion and other parody news sources in with your feed of real news, then when you see a headline you get to guess if it's a parody or not.
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