“This is why I decided to buy Infowars”. The writer of these lines is Bryce P. Tetraeder, executive director of Global Tetrahedron and owner of the American satirical media The Onion and now of Infowarsuntil recently one of the main channels of misinformation, according to Amnesty International“charlatan, liar propagator of hoaxes and conspiracy theories and insatiable monster of misinformation” Alex Jones. “Founded in 1999, (…) Infowars has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses. “With a cunning combination of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutritional tricks, they have endeavored to make life scarier and longer for everyone, a laudable goal,” says Tetraeder. But how the hell does a satirical outlet like The World Today Has it bought one of the main disinformation publications in the United States?
To understand it, you have to go back to December 14, 2012. That day, Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old young man, entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and murdered 26 people, 20 children and six adults. . Well, that same day, the ineffable Alex Jones, from Infowarsbegan to spread the hoax that the shooting, the deadliest in the country’s history, was a setup, “a trick by liberals to take away Americans’ guns.” Jones took the lies to a despicable level, going so far as to define Robbie Parker, the father of one of the murdered girls and who acted as spokesperson for the victim families, as a “soap opera actor.”
As Amnesty International recalls, after Jones’ words, the Facebook page in memory of Emilie, Parker’s six-year-old daughter, “was immediately flooded with people calling her a whore and threatening to show up at her house with weapons.” demanding proof that she was still alive.” Jones’s followers crossed all lines. “Another mother, Jacqueline Barden, (…) received letters from people who said they had urinated on her son Daniel’s grave, or who promised to dig him up, because they were convinced that there was no one in it,” they recall in AI.
Faced with lies, conspiracies and harassment, the families sued Alex Jones for defamation until a couple of years ago, in a historic ruling, he was sentenced to pay $1.5 billion to the victims of the massacre. To avoid paying, Jones filed for bankruptcy. And what did the judge do? Forced him to put it up for sale Infowars to raise the money and thus pay off his sentence. Or, as the owner explains The Onionwhere they used to satirize characters like Jones, “in a stroke of luck, a formidable group of special interests has outwitted the hapless owner of Infowars (a forgettable man with a now-forgotten name) and forced him to sell it for a bargain: less of a trillion dollars.”
Alex Jones, last September.
So that The Onion could take over the far-right media outlet in the auction held a few days ago, the families of Sandy Hook explain in The Washington Postthey even agreed to receive a lower compensation and thus “increase the overall value of Onion’s offer, which allowed its success.” One of the people who celebrated this “victory” was, of course, Robbie Parker. “The dissolution of Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have been waiting for and for which we have fought for a long time,” he said in a statement collected by the Post.
Although it is not yet known what exactly they will do with Infowarsthe CEO of The OnionBen Collins, has explained on social media that they are planning to “make a very stupid website.” “I can’t wait to show you what we’re cooking,” he wrote. Collins has also offered another reason why they decided to acquire the Jones well: “One of the reasons we bought Infowars is because the people at Bluesky told us it would be fun. And they were right. It is the funniest thing ever. never happened.”
Source: www.huffingtonpost.es
