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With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    16 days ago

    infowars.com still points to the Alex Jones infowars, and they’re live right now. I doubt they have any intentions of turning over the domain name or rebranding themselves.

    Edit: Ah here is the answer,

    That sale was scuttled by a bankruptcy court. Now, The Onion has re-emerged with a new plan: licensing the website from Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager of the site.

    On Monday, Mr. Milligan asked Maya Guerra Gamble, a judge in Texas’s Travis County District Court overseeing the disposition of Infowars, to approve that licensing agreement in a court filing. Under the terms, The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, would pay $81,000 a month to license Infowars.com and its associated intellectual property — such as its name — for an initial six months, with an option to renew for another six months.

    The licensing deal has been agreed to by The Onion and the court-appointed administrator. But it is not effective until Judge Gamble approves it, and Mr. Jones could appeal any ruling. That means the fate of Infowars remains in limbo until the court rules, probably sometime in the next two weeks. Mr. Jones continues to operate Infowars.com and host its weekday program, “The Alex Jones Show.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html

      • Cysio@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        6·
        16 days ago

        Yeah, reading the headlines I was like “have they taken over or not? because it’s hard to tell”

      • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        40·
        16 days ago

        Why are they giving it to the Fash appointed gatekeeper?

        Alex Jones owes more than $1 billion to the families of the Sandyhook victims because he told everyone that Sandyhook was a falseflag and that all the family members were payed actors so that his fans harassed the families.

        The Onion would pay Alex Jones and then Alex Jones has to pay the Sandyhook families, so the money is going to the Sandyhook victim families.

        • jackmaoist [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          17·
          16 days ago

          While I am with paying the family the money, doesn’t this basically absolve Alex Jones of any consequences? He still keeps the IP and somebody else pays his bills.

          • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            13·
            16 days ago

            The quote below is also from the NYT article. The courts are forcing Alex Jones to sell assets. The way I understand it is that the Sandy Hook families wanted The Onion to buy InfoWars because they didn’t want another right wing outlet to buy InfoWars and then continue doing the same type of harassment. The company associated with Alex Jones bid higher and then Alex Jones said it was not fair for the families to pick The Onion.

            The licensing agreement seems like some kind of compromise. The Onion gets access to the domain for 6 months for $486k and Alex Jones still owes over $1 billion to the Sandy Hook families.

            In late 2024, a sealed-bid silent auction drew only two contenders: The Onion’s parent and a company associated with Mr. Jones. The trustee and the families chose The Onion’s bid, despite its potential to yield less cash than the rival company’s. Mr. Jones and his lawyers cried foul, and Judge Lopez intervened, saying that the process was opaque and that The Onion’s bid was not obviously superior. He rejected plans for a do-over of the auction, instead directing the families to seek a liquidation through Judge Guerra Gamble’s court in Texas, where the first defamation case was heard and won.

            In August, Judge Guerra Gamble ruled that a court-appointed administrator would take over and sell Infowars’ assets, reopening the door to The Onion. “We’re working on it,” Ben Collins, the chief executive of Global Tetrahedron, wrote on social media on the same day as Judge Guerra Gamble’s ruling.

            The Onion’s proposal, worth $486,000 in its initial six-month term, does little to satisfy the enormous damages awarded to the Sandy Hook families. The families have been fighting to collect since Mr. Jones filed for personal and business bankruptcy. Mr. Jones is expected to lose access to his studio and equipment as part of the deal, Mr. Collins said.

            • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
              11·
              16 days ago

              The courts are forcing Alex Jones to sell assets.

              They sure arent. The judge ruled that he can’t be made to give away anything that isnt wholly his, so everything of his is part owned by his dad.

              At worst he may lose his shooting space since that wasnt really part of his dad based reshuffling, but the judge fully ruled that he got to keep infowars and his pill pushing empire

          • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            4·
            16 days ago

            I mean this is basically the only way the Sandy Hook victims are gonna get any settlement money. Jones kept refusing to pay it, then courts would seize more of his stuff, then Jones would declare bankruptcy.

            Also I’m not sure of how this will work but I guess it means The Onion will own his workplace which I doubt he’ll be happy about

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    38·
    16 days ago

    It’s been a while since Alex Jones lost the Sandy Hook Court Case. The funniest moment that I can remember was when the Sandy Hook family’s lawyer revealed that Alex Jones’s lawyers had accidentally sent him every file from Alex Jones’s phone and that Alex Jones’s lawyers did not try to correct the mistake, so now all of the files are now admissible in court.

    https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1554875445253812225 (video)

    Mark Bankston, the Sandy Hook family lawyer in the video, also said that he is a fan of Chapo Trap House in some interviews.