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The Onion has a new deal to acquire InfoWars, but like the previous deal rejected by the courts, this one also requires court approval. We’ll see.

As I said in 2024, I’m fine with someone else taking Infowars over and/or offline, but I’m skeptical that parodying Alex Jones isn’t counterproductive, versus simply depriving him of his biggest platform.

Then again, I just write about satirical publications; I don’t operate them. So maybe I’m wrong.

My first reaction is that I don’t love this for The Onion. Do we need Infowars in our society? By giving something attention, you sustain it. For example, we just went through 3 election cycles where we saw how obsessing over Trump only energized him (encompassing opponents, supporters and the media’s realization that Trump was profitabl…

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