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Jeff Lawson, the co-founder and recently departed CEO of enterprise infrastructure software company Twilio, is the proud new owner of satirical online newspaper The Onion. "Alright, the news is out — yes, I bought The Onion," Lawson wrote in a LinkedIn post late Thursday, after it first emerged in The New York Times Thursday. The Onion, regarded by many as "America's finest news source," is a digital media institution, serving satire by the spoonful for more than three decades, first as a weekly print edition starting in 1988, then as an online outlet from 1996 with the physical publication ceasing in 2013.