The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase
The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform
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Satirical website the Onion plans to turn rightwing commentator Alex Jones’s misinformation site Infowars into a parody of itself under a leasing agreement provisionally approved by a Texas court.
Under a proposed deal with court administrators, Infowars would be leased by Global Tetrahedron, a Chicago-based company that owns the Onion, for $81,000 a month for six months, with an option to renew for another six months.
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