The Onion signs new deal to take over Alex Jones’ Infowars

The Onion has signed a new deal to take over Infowars from conspiracy peddler Alex Jones. Under the agreement, The Onion will license Infowars' website and intellectual property from Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager of the site since August 2025, for $81,000 per month for six months. This is a change from Global Tetrahedron's initial plan to purchase the site's assets for $1.75 million in a 2024 auction. The new agreement was submitted to Texas state Judge Maya Guerra Gamble on Monday and covers licensing rights, rent, utilities, and other costs associated with Infowars' studios. The deal is renewable for six more months after that. This move marks a significant shift in the ownership of Infowars, a site known for promoting conspiracy theories.

The Onion has proposed a plan to take over Infowars, a media company run by Alex Jones, through a licensing arrangement that would allow it to publish its own parody content on Infowars' platforms. This effort requires approval from a judge and comes after a previous attempt by The Onion to buy Infowars outright was rejected. Infowars faces liquidation due to a court ruling in favor of families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, who won hundreds of millions of dollars in damages against Jones for spreading false claims about the massacre. Jones has resisted the new effort and previously acknowledged that the killings were real but claimed his statements were protected by US free speech protections. A judge ordered the liquidation of Jones' personal assets in June 2024. The proposal aims to turn Infowars into a parody website.