The satirical publication acquired the extreme-right, Sandy Hook-denying InfoWars during an auction of Jones’s assets, and will use it to parody its sanity-challenged conspiracy claims.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

InfoWars founder Alex Jones. Photo: Getty Images

“Smart Aleck Publisher Uses Twisted Parody to Make Alex Jones’s InfoWars a Total Joke.” That kind of headline is standard fare for the satirical website and parody newspaper The Onion—or would be if it were funny rather than ironic. Instead, it could be a future accusation the online provocateur Jones hurls at the publication, which just bought the notoriously dark, conspiracy-peddling media group through a court-ordered bankruptcy auction.

Much mirth, likely of the bitingly comic variety, is certain to ensue.

News of The Onion assuming ownership of InfoWars broke Thursday. Ben Collins, CEO of the satirical site’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, told The New York Times that his bid for Jones’s Free Speech Systems media group had acquired the media property in the recent bankruptcy auction. That sale was part of a court-ordered liquidation of Jones’s assets after he lost a $1.5 billion libel and defamation suit for repeatedly claiming the 2021 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was faked. Families of the 20 children and six adults killed in........

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