The Onion Signs Restructured Deal to License Infowars from Court-Appointed Manager
Satirical news outlet will pay $81,000 monthly for six months to license conspiracy-peddling site, covering website, IP, studio rent and utilities
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- The Onion's parent company Global Tetrahedron has signed a new restructured deal to license Infowars from court-appointed manager Gregory Milligan, paying $81,000 monthly for six months.
- The agreement covers the website, intellectual property, studio rent and utilities, with an option to renew for another six months.
- Infowars was put up for sale in 2024 after conspiracy theorist Alex Jones lost defamation lawsuits filed by Sandy Hook Elementary School victims' families, whom he had harassed after calling the 2012 massacre a "hoax".
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The satirical faux-news site The Onion has signed 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 US$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 US$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, Connecticut. 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 per cent real".
