The Onion has purchased Infowars, the infamous rightwing conspiracy theory hub helmed by Alex Jones. And no, this is not a joke.

Its plan involves turning the rightwing site into one big joke.

"This is going to be our answer to this no-guardrails world where there are no gatekeepers, and everything’s kind of insane." - Ben Collins, the chief executive of The Onion's parent company, Global Tetrahedron, told the New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html