The Onion, a satirical news publication, said it is buying the right-wing conspiracy website Infowars.The Onion said Thursday that its winning bid has the support of families who lost children in the Sandy Hook massacre,

When reality becomes stranger than satire, maybe the satirists can teach us something. The Onion confirmed on Thursday that its parent company bought Infowars, the disgraced purveyor of Sandy Hook misinformation and vendor of pseudoscience supplements.

Infowars was put up for auction by court order. Alex Jones owes more than $1 billion to the families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims.