# The Onion bids for Infowars

> The Onion offered $1.75 million for Infowars, but a judge rejected the sale.

- Owner: The Onion / Global Tetrahedron
- Kind: Moment
- Sector: Media & publishing
- Seed date: 2024-11-14
- Peak proxy date: 2024-11-14
- Date basis: Proxy date; not a directly measured attention peak.
- Spread Score: 31 (Niche), v1.3
- Mechanics: Platform jump, Controversy, Pairing

## Summary

A trustee selected The Onion’s bid for Infowars with support from Sandy Hook families. People shared reactions online and news outlets covered the bid. A bankruptcy judge rejected the sale in December.

## Timeline

- 2024-09-24 — Bloomberg Law (Press) — A bankruptcy judge approved plans to auction Infowars assets.
- 2024-11-14 — The Onion (Open web) — The Onion published a satirical announcement about buying Infowars.
- 2024-11-14 — Jordan Uhl (Threads) — Jordan Uhl posted a clip of Jones reacting to the auction news on Bluesky.

The full timeline, metrics and sources are on the case page, or via the Pro API (https://howitspread.com/mcp#api).

Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/onion-infowars-purchase-2024

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “The Onion bids for Infowars.” Case HIS-01799. Spread Score v1.3: 31/100. Updated 2026-10-28. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-01799