The Onion Buys Alex Jones’ Infowars With Help From Sandy Hook Families [Video]

Satirical news outlet, The Onion, has acquired Alex Jones‘ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction with support from families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.

The families, owed over $1 billion from Jones in defamation judgments for calling the 2012 school shooting a hoax, announced the acquisition Thursday.

Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the shooting, expressed the families’ relief, calling the sale a form of justice for the harm Jones’ falsehoods inflicted. “The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” Parker stated through his lawyers.

Although the sale price was not immediately disclosed, the transfer marks a powerful turn against Jones, whose conspiracy theories devastated grieving families.

Newsweek has reached out to The Onion for comment via email.