The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is currently based in Chicago, but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988, in Madison, Wisconsin.[1][3] The Onion began publishing online in early 1996. In 2007, they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the Onion News Network. In 2013, The Onion stopped publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency.[4][5] The Onion was then acquired three times, first by Univision in 2016, which later merged The Onion and its several other publications into those of Gizmodo Media Group.[6] This unit was sold in 2019 to Great Hill Partners, forming a new company named G/O Media.[7] Then, in April 2024, G/O Media sold The Onion to Global Tetrahedron, a firm newly created by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson, which revived the print edition in August that year.[8][9]
Twilio Inc. is an American cloud communications company based in San Francisco, California, which provides programmable communication tools for making and receiving phone calls, sending and receiving text messages, and performing other communication functions using its web service APIs.
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Doesn’t look Microslop related at that level, at least.
Jeff Larson is a big fan of The Onion and saved it from dying. After being forced to sell the first time, they had to tone down a lot of the articles and it got pretty meh. Then this guy created a company referencing a long-running Onion joke, bought it, and gave them free reign again. Like totally hands off, it’s the employees who decide what to publish
I’ve been reading The Onion since the early 2000s and it got BETTER under his ownership. Back to their roots.
Doesn’t MS own the onion?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion
No Wikipedia entry for either Jeff Larson or “Global Tetrahedron”. Twilio does have one though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilio
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Doesn’t look Microslop related at that level, at least.
Jeff Larson is a big fan of The Onion and saved it from dying. After being forced to sell the first time, they had to tone down a lot of the articles and it got pretty meh. Then this guy created a company referencing a long-running Onion joke, bought it, and gave them free reign again. Like totally hands off, it’s the employees who decide what to publish
I’ve been reading The Onion since the early 2000s and it got BETTER under his ownership. Back to their roots.