Jeff Lawson, Twilio cofounder and, probably, the new owner of The Onion.Steve Jennings / Getty ImagesSatirical news website The Onion was sold to a company called Global Tetrahedron.Global Tetrahedron is also the name of a fictional evil megacorporation in a long-running Onion gag.But it's a real company, and Twilio founder Jeff Lawson appears to be behind it.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.