BEN COLLINS AND JEFF COLLINS
FLATTERING EACHOTHER

1. Onion CEO Ben Collins Hasn't Given Up on Print—or Buying Infowars
   Source: WIRED (Uncanny Valley)
   Format: Podcast/Transcript | Ben speaking: Yes
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2. How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral
   Source: The Verge (Decoder)
   Format: Podcast/Transcript | Ben speaking: Yes
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3. A Former Disinformation Reporter is Running The Onion (plus birds are real)
   Source: WNYC Studios (On the Media transcript)
   Format: Podcast/Transcript | Ben speaking: Yes
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4. The Onion Knight Ft. Ben Collins
   Source: iHeart (Better Offline episode page)
   Format: Podcast/Transcript | Ben speaking: Yes
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5. The Onion’s Owner on Satire, Infowars, Defending Democracy, Trump (full transcript)
   Source: Podscrips (On with Kara Swisher transcript)
   Format: Podcast/Transcript | Ben speaking: Context
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6. Area man, Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson, buys The Onion
   Source: TechCrunch
   Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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7. Inside the sale of The Onion, and what comes next
   Source: Axios
   Format: Article | Ben speaking: Quoted/Referenced
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8. The Onion is sold to new firm known as Global Tetrahedron
   Source: Axios
   Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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9. The Onion Sold to Founder of Twilio, Who Taps Ex-NBC News Reporter Ben Collins to Lead Satire Site as CEO
   Source: Variety
   Format: Article | Ben speaking: Quoted/Referenced
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10. The Onion, Following Acquisition, Names Former NBC News Reporter Ben Collins CEO
    Source: Deadline
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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11. Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson Appears to Have Just Bought The Onion
    Source: Business Insider
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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12. Longtime SF tech exec buys iconic media outlet in jokey buyout
    Source: SFGATE
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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13. S.F. tech billionaire buys the Onion and asks readers for $1
    Source: San Francisco Chronicle
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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14. Who is S.F. tech exec Jeff Lawson, owner of the Onion?
    Source: San Francisco Chronicle
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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15. “The Onion has been the most correct newspaper of my lifetime”
    Source: Nieman Lab (Wrap)
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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16. Give This Rich Dude $1 or The Onion Disappears Forever
    Source: WIRED (Plaintext)
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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17. Meet the new CEO of ‘The Onion’ is bringing back ‘the good internet.’ Here’s how
    Source: Fast Company
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Quoted/Referenced
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18. Saving 'The Onion': An extremely brief oral history
    Source: Fast Company
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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19. Not The Onion: Journalist-turned-CEO Ben Collins calls the satire site Gen Z’s “paper of record”
    Source: Depth Perception (Substack)
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Yes
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20. The Onion’s Ben Collins Knows How to Save Media
    Source: Vanity Fair
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Quoted/Referenced
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21. The Onion Buys Infowars in Bankruptcy Auction
    Source: Variety
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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22. Not Satire: The Onion acquires Infowars
    Source: Status
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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23. The Onion Is Buying Alex Jones's Infowars Site
    Source: The Wall Street Journal
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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24. The Onion just bought Infowars
    Source: The Verge
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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25. The Onion’s acquisition of Infowars was blocked by a judge
    Source: The Verge
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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26. US judge halts Onion takeover of Infowars in Alex Jones bankruptcy
    Source: The Guardian
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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27. Jeff Lawson’s The Onion Buys Conspiracy Theory Website Infowars
    Source: The Information
    Format: Article (paywalled) | Ben speaking: Context
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28. Fighting conspiracy theories with comedy? That's what The Onion hopes after its purchase of Infowars
    Source: First Amendment Encyclopedia (MTSU)
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Context
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29. The Onion Is the Latest Publication to Be Sold by G/O Media
    Source: Pixel Envy (linklog citing NYT)
    Format: Linklog/summary | Ben speaking: Context
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30. Onion CEO confirms The Onion is, in fact, ‘fake news’
    Source: The Berkeley Beacon
    Format: Article | Ben speaking: Quoted/Referenced
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31. The Onion’s purchase: Jeff Lawson / Global Tetrahedron ownership roundup
    Source: Wikipedia (context / citations list)
    Format: Reference | Ben speaking: Context
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32. Jeff Lawson speaking about the acquisition + Ben Collins CEO announcement (roundup)
    Source: LinkedIn (Ben Collins profile/posts)
    Format: Social / posts | Ben speaking: Context
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33. Global Tetrahedron ownership details (context mention tied to The Onion)
    Source: Crunchbase (Jeff Lawson profile)
    Format: Reference | Ben speaking: Context
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34. Jeff Lawson and Ben Collins buying The Onion (tweet thread)
    Source: X (Katie Robertson)
    Format: Social / thread | Ben speaking: Context
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