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Why The Onion’s Infowars bid has been blocked — for now

In November, satirical newspaper The Onion won a bankruptcy auction to purchase Infowars, a website dedicated to hawking anti-government conspiracy theories. On Wednesday, however, a federal bankruptcy judge rejected the purchase on the grounds that the auction wasn’t conducted in a sufficiently transparent fashion, and didn’t produce as many proceeds as it could have.  At […]