Who is the editor?

You still haven't said what example from Axios you meant. But compare it to Alex Jones' and Infowars' claims that the shooting at Sandy Hook was a staged false flag operation and the parents of dead kids were crisis actors. Texts from the trial show that they knew what they were doing.

If you aren't familiar with this case, you might want to take a look at it and see how it ranks in terms of heinousness.