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.”

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax,

The satirical site will immediately shut down the infamous conspiracy platform and work with leading gun safety organization to turn it into humor site.

Bankruptcy judge orders hearing on Infowars sale to satirical site The Onion after Alex Jones challenges auction