The Onion Bids for Infowars, Sandy Hook Families to Benefit

0:00On April 20th, the onion is pushing hard to hijack Alex Jones' InfoWars empire. With his company free-speech systems facing liquidation over more than $1 billion in defamation judgments from Sandy Hook families, the Satire site filed a proposal in Texas Court this week for a temporary license to the InfoWars website and social channels. They want to flip it into a parody hub, running their own comedy content starting around April 30th if Judge Maya Guarragamble greenlights it. Onion CEO Ben Collins says they've lined up talent-like Tim Heidecker from Adult Swim to run the show, and all profits would flow straight to the Sandy Hook relatives. This stems from Jones repeatedly calling the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, a hoax with crisis actors pushing gun control. That sparked massive harassment against victims' families, death threats, stalking, all-mind abuse, which led to lawsuits hitting Jones with over 1.4 billion dollars in Connecticut in nearly 50 million in Texas. Jones fired back on his show, bowing to battle the deal in court,

1:04and prepping a new studio to keep broadcasting as the Alex Jones show on his ex, account, fresh sites, and radio stations. Meanwhile, the court receiver backs the plan, which includes the onion, covering $81,000 monthly for rents and ops during a six-month trial period. Sandy Hook lawyers are on board too, as appeals drag on in liquidation inches forward could be wild-watching satire squad clash with conspiracy king. In real time, this has been US News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story.