How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral

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Let's wrap up just by talking about those jokes for one second. You have a long history in disinformation on these platforms. Onion headlines showing up on platforms' divorce of context are themselves an opportunity to provide misinformation. There's a competitor to the Onion called Babylon Bee, which is all wrapped up in the culture war in this exact way. The Onion has a point of view.