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'Beautiful joke': The Onion finally reaches another deal to take over Infowars - Raw Story (www.rawstory.com)

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

The Onion's parent company, Global Tetrahedron, won a 2024 bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, but a judge voided those results, saying their was a lack of transparency in the deal.

If the licensing agreement receives court approval, The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site satirizing its conspiratorial origins, and comedian Tim Heidecker has been hired as creative director.

“I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” said Heidecker, one of the creative forces behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.