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alt text: screenshot of bluesky post by the CNN. post content reads "BREAKING: Satirical news site The Onion has won the auction to acquire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars" with embedded CNN article link reading "The Onion wins bidding for InfoWars assets | CNN Business - Satirical news site The Onion won the auction to acquire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' InfoWars".

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can’t wait to see what they do with it

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Start publishing leftist(real) conspiracies? Push anticapitalist propaganda? Have it all be formatted similarly to the original site?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago

That’s what I hope they do.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Finally smile inducing news

[–] kaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

wait you're telling me this actually happened, and wasn't just some weird Onion article I got on my feed the other day??? LMFAOOOO

[–] wise 6 points 1 week ago

Same here Had to check the Twitter post existed cause I still didn’t believe it

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 24 points 1 week ago

The perfect name to spread some chaos lmao

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I hope they just start posting real stories about America’s far right.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago