Satirical outlet The Onion has teamed up with US gun control group Everytown to place the winning bid on InfoWars, which right-wing commentator Alex Jones was forced to liquidate to pay enormous legal debts. Several families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims, who won the judgment against Jones, reportedly also pitched in.

In 2022, a Connecticut judge ordered Jones to pay $1.5 billion to the families of those killed in the 2012 school massacre, which claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. The plaintiffs argued that Jones caused them emotional damage by claiming the shooting was “staged” so the US government could enact Draconian gun control laws.