When asked whether he had purchased The Onion, Lawson played coy. "What's The Onion?" he replied. Then, "What's a Tetrahedron?"
Business Insider was unsure how to respond to these questions.
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I'm not sure what to read into tho whole article, it reads like an onion article from a normal place.
Maybe it's me taking the crazy pills today.
I think it’s a legit article crafted in the style of an onion article due to the topic
Not sure if this is the news or satire
It’s real, and it’s the best news I’ve read in a while!
Ben Collins
NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO.
We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and share the wealth with staff.
Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want. Get excited.
bringing back The Onion News Network
hell yeah
The one on marijuana...simply perfect.
Big if true.
I definitely had to check the date it was posted as the whole article is quite odd.
This guy sounds like he enjoys messing with people while keeping a straight face. I’m very glad to see that. The best Onion articles are virtually indistinguishable from reality.
I'm not sure if that was caused by a shift in the Onion or a shift in reality, but I feel like it was the latter.
I give up, I don't know what to believe anymore
Hope this doesn't turn out to he a Babylon Bee situation:
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-happened-to-the-babylon-bee
No correlation. The Bee started out as conservative trash designed to appeal to conservative trash.
The BB was never funny and always terrible. There was no loss when it got ‘even worse.’
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Jeff Lawson, the cofounder of cloud computing company Twilio, appears to have purchased the satirical news website The Onion from G/O Media.
A trust linked to Lawson is behind a San Francisco-based company called Global Tetrahedron, which shares the name of a fictional evil megacorporation in a long-running Onion gag, business records show.
G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller confirmed the sale of The Onion to Global Tetrahedron in an email Thursday to staff, first reported by New York Times journalist Katie Robertson.
"This company is made up of four digital media veterans with a profound love for The Onion and comedy based content," Spanfeller wrote.
"The site's new owners have agreed to keep The Onion's entire staff intact and in Chicago, something we insisted be part of the deal."
Lawson resigned as Twilio's CEO in January following a year of deep layoffs and pressure from activist investors.
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