The satirical faux-news site The Onion has inked a new, restructured deal to take over Infowars from conspiracy peddler Alex Jones.
Under the new terms, the Onion would license Infowars from Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager of the site since August 2025, instead of buying its assets outright for $1.75 million, as parent company Global Tetrahedron initially tried to do in a 2024 auction.
Under the new agreement, submitted Monday to Texas state Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, Global Tetrahedron will pay $81,000 a month for six months. That will cover licensing rights to the Infowars website and intellectual property, as well as rent for Infowars’ studios, utilities and other costs. It’s renewable for six more months after that.
Infowars was put up for sale in 2024, after Jones lost defamation suits filed by victims’ families following the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The right-wing conspiracy theorist had repeatedly called the mass shooting a “hoax” put on by “crisis actors” who wanted to promote gun-control laws.
In truth, the gunman murdered his mother before heading to the school, where he killed six educators and 20 first-graders before shooting himself. The victims’ families were subjected to harassment, death threats and online abuse from people who believed Jones.
Jones eventually admitted in court that the massacre was “100% real.”
He lost defamation cases in Connecticut and Texas and now owes the families more than $1 billion in damages. Jones filed for bankruptcy soon after, in late 2022, and in 2025 a judge ordered the liquidation of his company.
The new plan does not change the Onion’s mission, which is to turn the site into a parody of itself and sell merchandise, sharing profits with Sandy Hook families. The company is confident enough in a positive ruling that it is already filming satirical videos for the site.
Jones, meanwhile, said he plans to reconstitute his empire as the “Alex Jones Show” and is “not going anywhere.”