(WFSB) – The Onion, a satirical newspaper, has bought Alex Jones’ far-right conspiracy website Infowars.

Proceeds from the sale will go to Sandy Hook families.

Alex Jones was sued by the Sandy Hook Families and ordered to pay them $1.5 billion in damages.

Jones said he didn’t have that money and filed for bankruptcy.

Infowars, which he owns, was an asset that could be auctioned off.

The Onion has acquired Infowars. The money will be used to pay that historic judgment.

“I mean, it’s, it’s a huge win, right? I mean, we didn’t know about The Onion’s involvement in this until recently, but we were willing to take less money to make sure someone who wasn’t affiliated with Jones could win that option. So for The Onion to get it is a huge win for us and I couldn’t be happier,” said Robbie Parker. Parker’s daughter, Emilie, was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting.

“They are proud. This is what can happen. That’s what happens when people are motivated by principle, they’re brave, they come together and they decide to do something good,” said Chris Mattei, attorney for the Sandy Hook families.

Mattei is the attorney who represented 9 Sandy Hook families in that trial.

He says the families were never motivated by money, but by a desire to hold Jones accountable and prevent him from hurting others.

Jones claimed Sandy Hook was fake and the parents were actors.

Throughout his trial, Parker was seen getting emotional, remembering his daughter’s death and realizing that even though Jones called it fake, it was still very real for all the families affected.

“These families have suffered. His followers told them their children were not killed by a gunman,” said Jeremy Stein, United States for Gun Violence Prevention. “That’s a statement you can’t lie to the American people and not be held accountable.”

Parker is now ready to move on to try and bring happiness and healing back to his world.

“Jones is using his rhetoric to make people fear that people like me will use that event to go out and try to take people’s guns and he made me a target and he made people hate me. and this is what I have had to endure and what my family has had to endure for 12 years now. so the fact that we were able to separate jones from the platforms that he was using to do that is again, a huge win, and the fact that there’s going to be somebody else that’s going to use that platform now to create a different narrative and they’re going to have fun with it, but at the end of the day, we have to get back to what the truth is,” he continued.

It’s unclear what will take Infowars’ place, but The Onion has granted exclusive advertising rights to a national group called Everytown for Gun Safety.

Gun protection groups across the country say this has less to do with money and more to do with stopping the spread of lies.

The Onion said the purpose of the acquisition is to end Infowars’ relentless spree of disinformation.

Jones has already started another show.

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