Jones was broadcasting live from the Infowars studio Thursday morning and appeared distraught, putting his head in his hand at his desk. He said he's planning legal challenges to fight the purchase.

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

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.

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 sale ends Jones’s 25-year run controlling the conspiracy theorist website that peddled claims the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “hoax.”

A statement from the attorney of eight families affected by the tragedy said those parents had “agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The

The Onion bought Infowars, the Alex Jones right-wing conspiracy theory website, in a bankruptcy auction confirmed Thursday by Jones.