Oscars: The Onion apologises for offensive Quvenzhane Wallis tweet On Sunday the parody site referred to Quvenzhane Wallis, who was attending the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, with an expletive intended to denigrate women. The Onion was lambasted overnight and asked for forgiveness Monday. The Onion's original tweet brought some calls for the fake news organisation to publicly identify the writer of the tweet. The publication says it averages 40 million page views and roughly 7.5 million unique visitors per month. Last year, the site made international headlines when the online version of China's Communist Party newspaper hailed an Onion report naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man Alive" - apparently unaware it was satire.