By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -Like a headline befitting 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.

The sale ends Alex Jones’s control over his website, which promoted false claims, including the assertion that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “hoax.”