There was a merry triumphalism to the announcement last week that The Onion, a satirical outlet based in Chicago, won an auction to acquire the conspiracy site Infowars out of bankruptcy. The deal seemed done: Infowars went offline; memes of an apop

The Onion, a satirical publication that skewers newsmakers and current eventsmnl168, said on Thursday that it had won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Infowars, a website founded and operated by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. But in a twist all