The Onion announces new deal to acquire Alex Jones' Infowars

AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — Satirical news outlet The Onion says it has reached a new deal to buy the assets of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's platform, Infowars, more than a year after a federal bankruptcy judge blocked a previous agreement.

"With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars," The Onion's CEO, ex-NBC journalist Ben Collins, announced on social media Monday.

The deal would reportedly see The Onion and its parent company, Global Tetrahedron LLC, license the Infowars name and website rights from the court-appointed receiver for six months for a fee just shy of $500,000, with the option to renew for another six months.

A court-appointed receiver also filed documents Monday morning asking Travis County District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble to approve the deal, but Gamble will likely not come to a decision for days or weeks. Jones and his attorneys are also likely to appeal any decision Gamble reaches.

In the meantime, The Onion has already set up its own Infowars webpage, mixing its own satirical style with the aesthetics of Jones's long-running platform.

The site features a modified version of the Infowars logo front and center, with the letter "O" replaced by The Onion's own logo.

The only article on the page so far is a satirical statement from the fictitious CEO of Onion parent company Global Tetrahedron, who declares "With this new InfoWars, we will democratize psychological torture, welcoming brutal and sadistic ideas from everyone, even the very stupidest among us. It will be like the Manhattan Project, only instead of a bomb, we will be building a website."

The page also features several fake advertisements for turning urine into gold and for other fake products, parodying the ads for the supplement products Jones sells on his own shows and websites.

The Onion also announced, as part of this new arrangement, that comedian Tim Heidecker would take the role of Jones in their new comedy shows. Heidecker released his own social media statement, filmed in front of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and echoing the outlet's satire.

In 2024, The Onion reached a deal with the Connecticut-based families of many of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, who had won a combined $1.5 billion in defamation judgments against Jones for his false statements about their children and the events of the shooting.

That deal saw the satirical news outlet emerge as the unexpected winners of the closed-door federal court bankruptcy auction for the Infowars assets. But the only other bidder, a company loosely tied to Jones known as PQPR Holdings, challenged the court-appointed trustee's decision to declare The Onion as the winners.

While the federal judge in that case, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez, did not object to the unorthodox structure of the Onion's 2024 deal, he rejected the sale in December after the court-appointed trustee failed or refused to provide the judge with an exact monetary value for the deal rather than the proposed range. But rather than accept PQPR's second-place bid, the judge sent all parties back to the negotiating table.

Lopez then denied a February 2025 settlement between the parties in the bankruptcy case, and after minimal activity for the remainder of 2025, activity in the Jones bankruptcy moved over to the state court under Gamble.

Attorneys for Alex Jones did not immediately respond to a request for comment.