The satirical news company plans to shutter Jones’ Infowars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.

Conspiracy theory purveyor Infowars and most of its assets went on the auction block Wednesday, with Alex Jones waiting to see if he will be allowed to stay or if he will get kicked off its online platforms.

The Austin-based founder of Infowars was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in restitution for defaming families of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Jones regularly accused them of being crisis actors on his broadcasts. Jones declared bankruptcy in 2022.

The Onion’s CEO Ben Collins confirmed that the publication purchased Alex Jones’ Infowars outlet in a Saturday series of posts on the social media platform Bluesky amid Jones’s claims of wrongdoings and illegal activity.

A federal bankruptcy judge put The Onion‘s winning bid for Alex Jones’s InfoWars media platform on pause to further review the bankruptcy-auction process after Jones and his lawyers claimed the auction was improperly conducted.

A criminal investigation has been launched into allegations of a conspiracy to manipulate the auction for InfoWars, the controversial platform founded by Alex Jones. The probe comes as Jones declares that InfoWars has

Alex Jones has been ranting about the 'fake and rigged' InfoWars sale, but The Onion CEO Ben Collins says he will turn it into 'the dumbest site on the internet.'