What The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars can teach us about executive comms

“America’s Finest News Source” had an unexpected executive comms joke up its sleeve.Though the premise of this story falls in line with something satirical publication The Onion might publish, this news is real: The Onion has purchased Alex Jones’ notorious right-wing conspiracy content site InfoWars, with plans of relaunching it next year as a satire of its former self.
According to a report from the AP, The Onion won the rights to Infowars in a bankruptcy auction result