For once, “funniest possible outcome” is not an exaggeration. The Onion, the satirical news site that began as a newspaper in the 1980s, says it has won a bankruptcy bid to acquire InfoWars, the fringe right-wing site run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

It appears that InfoWars may be offline soon, though Jones says he will continue to broadcast until the last minute and is promoting a new website where he plans to reboot his show. “They could shut us down at any time, at any time, poof,” Jones said in a live stream on X. “There’s a backup studio on the Alex Jones network, we’re thinking in the future. This is going to have a huge Streisand effect, they think we’re defeated, we’re not.” Jones began his career in streaming from home and it looks like he will now return to those roots.

For years, Jones spread false accusations that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting never happened and that the parents of the victims were crisis actors hired to repeal Second Amendment rights. The families sued Jones for defamation and was later ordered to do so pay $1.4 billion in the damage done to families. Jones’s media empire was later forced into liquidation. He has since admitted that the shooting was not a false flag operation.

Jones had hoped that backers would come around to buy InfoWars and allow him to continue broadcasting his daily news show, but it appears that ultimately did not happen. It’s unclear how much The Onion paid InfoWars. The Onion itself was acquired in April by Jeff Lawson, the billionaire founder of Twilio, and brought on former NBC News reporter Ben Collins as CEO.

“The Onion’s goal with the acquisition is to end Infowars’ relentless barrage of misinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it permanently with The Onion’s relentless barrage of humor,” a press release said. “The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring website users with lies until they lose their cash cold and hard. Or Bitcoin. We also accept Bitcoin.”

The Onion partnered on the purchase with Everytown for Gun Safety, a non-profit organization formed after the Sandy Hook shooting to advocate for gun control. The press release says Everytown has signed a multi-year advertising deal and will be the exclusive advertiser on Infowars during the relaunch period.

“We hope Sandy Hook families will be able to marvel at the cosmic joke we’re going to make about Infowars,” Collins said. Jones is already considered something of a parody for his outrageous and exaggerated claims, and clips from his show have been repeatedly used for comic effect. It’s not clear how The Onion could do anything more absurd. But either way, it should bring closure to the families affected by Jones’ years of harassment.