Satirical news site The Onion won the auction to acquire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars, which was sold off as part of a defamation settlement after he falsely called the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax.
“In order to make the bid work, the families “agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, enabling its success,” the families said in a statement.”
Sounds like they contributed by reducing their collections?
The families didn’t pay for this, The Onion did.
The families support was mostly not financial in this .
They backed the Onion bid to reduce the cost and make sure they were successful. It definitely cost them.
“In order to make the bid work, the families “agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, enabling its success,” the families said in a statement.”
Sounds like they contributed by reducing their collections?
Exactly.