Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families

(14 Nov 2024)
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New York – 14 November 2024
Various of Onion newspaper
1. SOUNDBITE (English) John Feinblatt, President of Everytown for Gun Safety:
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“You know, when you think about the unmitigated harm that Alex Jones and Infowars brought to Sandy Hook families, it’s just poetic justice that now Everytown and The Onion together will open a new chapter on Infowars and a chapter that is devoted to the issue of gun safety.”
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) John Feinblatt, President of Everytown for Gun Safety:
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“This is an opportunity to actually staunch the flood of misinformation and and talk straight to people about facts, about research, about data, and do it in a way with The Onion’s creativity that will land as common sense. “
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) John Feinblatt, President of Everytown for Gun Safety:
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“The advertising will come in many forms. It will come in video, it will come in banner ads, it will come into links to our information. But what we will basically be trying to do through this new alliance is reach all Americans. And the truth is that Americans believe in gun safety. They believe in common sense.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) John Feinblatt, President of Everytown for Gun Safety:
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“Humor is one of the most effective ways to reach people and to actually combat misinformation. And so that’s why we’re all in, that’s why this made perfect sense to us.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) John Feinblatt, President of Everytown for Gun Safety:
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I think that the families are so relieved that the misinformation, the painful, cruel misinformation that has been visited upon them will be staunched. This is turning a chapter and turning a chapter on a very, very painful moment.”
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STORYLINE:
Families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims say the satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction.

They made the announcement Thursday. Jones owes them more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the 2012 massacre a hoax.

The sale price was not immediately disclosed. The Onion says its “exclusive launch advertiser” will be the gun violence prevention organization Everytown for Gun Safety.

Jones said on social media that he planned to challenge the sale in court.

He broadcast live from the Infowars studio Thursday morning and appeared distraught, putting his head in his hand at his desk.

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