Satirical publication The Onion has come up with a new plan to acquire Infowars after a bankruptcy court rejected the previous attempt.
Infowars, the website founded by right-wing conspirator Alex Jones, went up for sale two years ago, and an unlikely buyer, The Onion, came up with a plan to buy the website and turn it into a parody of itself.
The Onion now wants to license the site from Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed head of the site, and the satirical news outlet offered $81,000 a month to license the Infowars.com domain name for the first six months, with an option to renew the deal if both parties agree.
According to New York Times, although the administrator of the website and The Onion have already agreed to the license agreement, it will not be effective unless Travis County District Court Judge Guerra Gamble approves it.
Alex Jones, who continues to run the website and host his weekday program “The Alex Jones Show,” has yet to respond to the deal proposed by The Onion. A final decision from the judge is expected within the next two weeks.
A noted conspiracy theorist, Jones has opposed the proposed takeover of The Onion. Infowars is in limbo due to a series of lawsuits filed against Jones by the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Connecticut, which Jones claimed was a hoax.
Rough estimates from 2018 suggest that Infowar’s website received over 1 million visitors each day, which has been declining since then.
Jones filed for bankruptcy last year. To repay debts owed to the Sandy Hook families and other creditors, US Bankruptcy Court Judge Christopher Lopez ordered in mid-2024 that a receiver sell equipment, intellectual property and other assets owned by Free Speech Systems, Infowars’ parent company.
