After shutting down Infowars and chasing Alex Jones out of the building, the Onion hopes to reopen the site in January as a parody of what he and others have peddled for years.

When reality becomes stranger than satire, maybe the satirists can teach us something. Or, maybe the last laugh will be on them after all. The Onion said on Thursday that its parent company bought Infowars,

By Dietrich Knauth and Katie Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) -Like a headline lifted from the Onion, the parody news website is buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars in a bankruptcy auction. The Onion said in a statement on Thursday it aims to replace Infowars' "relentless barrage of disinformation" with the Onion's "noticeably less hateful disinformation.