Yesterday, the company that owns the satirical news organization,
The Onion, shared some news that almost seemed like a parody.
The Onion was going to buy Infowars.
Infowars was owned by the far-right media personality Alex Jones,
and was up for sale as part of a bankruptcy proceeding.
To a lot of people, the news came as a big, hilarious surprise.
Yeah, I mean, that's what we wanted it to be.
We wanted people to wake up and be like, wait, I can get a pusher that's not the worst thing in the world.
I can get a pusher that's like, oh my god, a nice thing happened on the planet, so we wanted people to feel that way.
This is Ben Collins, the CEO of The Onion.
Alex Jones is,
this is a guy who has spent his whole life trying to legitimize some pretty awful ideas through the veneer of the news.
He's going to keep doing this, like, that's the way it is,
but we can interrupt him, and also we can get one over on him.
I think, like, when most people read this news yesterday, they looked at their phone for the first time in a while,
potentially, and was like, huh, something good happened, something funny happened.
That's what we wanted to do.
And, like, at the end of the day, that's the reaction we want to have from people.
And also, you know, we also get to build this world.
Like, The Onion is the very best place at going at the heart of,