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The Onion buys conspiracy website Infowars after $1.5b ruling against founder Alex Jones (www.abc.net.au)

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In short:

The satirical news website The Onion, which claims to have 4.3 trillion daily readers, will partner with a gun violence prevention organisation to relaunch the conspiracy website, Infowars.

Infowars' founder Alex Jones claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax conducted by crisis actors.

What's next?

Jones has vowed to file legal challenges to stop The Onion taking his site.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

It would be hard to top the gay frogs thing, but I'm sure they've got some ideas.