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The Onion has acquired InfoWars (theonion.com)
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Just so it's clear since it's The Onion reporting, this one is actually a real story.

クロスポスト: https://hexbear.net/post/3895468

really the only good place for it.

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[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The site is back up. Variety: Judge Halts the Onion’s Infowars Takeover to Review Bankruptcy Auction Process

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

Dang. It took until I saw that https://www.infowars.com/posts/not-so-fast-judge-halts-infowars-sale-to-onion-due-to-shady-auction-procedures had Alex Jones' Twitter in red from Shinigami Eyes to realize that this wasn't supposed to be an Onion parody, because it would really be funny for the Onion to have pretended this was the case if it weren't

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 19 hours ago

All gone.

$ curl -sI https://infowars.com/ | head -n1
HTTP/2 403
[–] ahriboy@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Now find and K.O. Alex Jones once for all.

[–] vaguevoid@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 day ago

lmao