The Onion Buys Alex Jones’ InfoWars, Sandy Hook Parent Calls It ‘Karma’

Alex Jones having his InfoWars web site taken over by The Onion is poetic justice … at the least so far as the mother or father of a Sandy Hook college taking pictures sufferer is anxious.

David Wheeler, whose son Benjamin was one of many first-graders murdered on the elementary college in 2012, tells TMZ … he is completely satisfied the satirical information website is the brand new proprietor of Jones’ pleasure and pleasure … and he cannot consider a greater instance of karma.

Jones needed to put InfoWars up for public sale to repay his money owed, together with the $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit he misplaced to households of the Sandy Hook taking pictures victims.

He was sued in 2018 after spreading baseless claims that the lethal college taking pictures was a false flag occasion to assist the federal government roll out a plan to confiscate Individuals’ weapons.

Wheeler even testified at Jones’ defamation trial … saying the conspiracy idea resulted in strangers displaying up at his house, demanding to see his son who died within the tragedy.

The Onion plans to rework InfoWars right into a parody of itself … relaunching the location in January to mock “weird internet personalities” like Jones who peddle misinformation and well being dietary supplements, CEO Ben Collins instructed The New York Occasions.

Final yr, we spoke with David when Elon Musk let Jones again on X, and David blasted the transfer and instructed us Elon was a “sociopath” for bringing Jones again to the platform.