Kinda, Infowars/Alex Jones was in court and being ordered to sell off their assets to pay the Sandy Hook lawsuit. The Onion put in a bid along with another company that “Totally has no association with Alex Jones”, The Onion’s bid was higher than this other company, but the judge basically said “Um actually, no you can’t have it” and froze their bid on a technicality
Actually iirc the Onion bid was lower, but would spread the reward more equitably to the victims. The victims wanted it. The company doing the liquidation wanted it, the judge wanted it, but the appeal judge blocked it.
Infowars was being sold to pay Sandy Hook lawsuit. The Onion won the bid for Infowars. They were going to make it a satire site. Then some “we don’t want to sell to them even though we have to as part of asset liquidation” drama means that the sale got cancelled (which is what the comic is referencing)
OOTL with this one. The Onion and Infowars went to court???
Kinda, Infowars/Alex Jones was in court and being ordered to sell off their assets to pay the Sandy Hook lawsuit. The Onion put in a bid along with another company that “Totally has no association with Alex Jones”, The Onion’s bid was higher than this other company, but the judge basically said “Um actually, no you can’t have it” and froze their bid on a technicality
Actually iirc the Onion bid was lower, but would spread the reward more equitably to the victims. The victims wanted it. The company doing the liquidation wanted it, the judge wanted it, but the appeal judge blocked it.
Booooy, read about sandy hook, the infowars dude lost a lawsuit so big he had to apparently sell infowars, and the onion won the bid.
Then the dude tried to null the bid or something, and the comic happened.
Infowars was being sold to pay Sandy Hook lawsuit. The Onion won the bid for Infowars. They were going to make it a satire site. Then some “we don’t want to sell to them even though we have to as part of asset liquidation” drama means that the sale got cancelled (which is what the comic is referencing)