At long last, InfoWars is ours

bigyabai

> Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming with ads. Not just ads, but scams! Not just scams, but lies with no object, free radical misinformation, sentences and images so poorly thought out that they are unhealthy even to view for just a few seconds. In any age where Polymarket didn't already exist, we'd have called this satire.

burkaman

This is not final and still has to be approved by a judge ( https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo... )

eatonphil

Despite the article, infowars.com at least doesn't really seem to be run by The Onion yet? But I'm looking at that site for the first time so I have no idea.

jmward01

So they are now setting the content on infowars.com? Honestly, I can't tell since everything on that site looks so fake it isn't believable. The onion transition may be hard to detect.

pogue

Seems like it's still not theirs until a judge signs off on it. 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.” The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo...

incomingpain

You want to be associated with toxic waste IP? Why? You're not going to attract any of the audience. You likely could have just chose a new name and built whatever you want to do with this.

imagetic

Nothing else matters in the world today

luke727

Maybe it's just me but I don't see much humor in this. His brand and assets may have been liquidated, but he's still doing his show and it remains popular. The only people who really won in this saga are, as usual, the lawyers.

pton_xd

It was barely funny when I read the headline a few years ago. Really weird story, I guess I just don't understand the humor at all. I'd rather stop hearing about InfoWars entirely.

djgleebs

The Onion running Infowars sounds objectively less entertaining even if you believe EVERYTHING Alex says is a lie.

netcan

>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. This is hilarious.

falcor84

> Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website. I love that. Like a familiar smell, it triggered in me a long lost memory of the old hacker ethos.

Kye

Finally, competition for Clickhole.

jakedata

"Tu Stultus Es" "Drugs Win Drug War" "History Sighs, Repeats Itself" and of course... "SICKOS"

micromacrofoot

Worth highlighting: > “The goal for the families we represent has always been to prevent Alex Jones from being able to cause harm at scale, the way he did against them,” said Chris Mattei, the lawyer who argued the Connecticut families’ case in court. The deal with The Onion promises “to significantly degrade his power to do that.” > The Onion also plans to sell merchandise and share the proceeds with the Sandy Hook families. Great work by all on this effort.

weberer

Alex Jones is live right now discussing this https://banned.video/channel/the-alex-jones-show https://x.com/AJNlive

balozi

A half decent Board of Directors at The Onion mothership would have asked the question: Is this what we should be spending time and money on?

nxobject

Oh joy, the old Onion News Network is back! Welcome back, Jim Haggerty! Some beautiful examples below… —- Today Now!: Save Money By Taking A Vacation Entirely In Your Mind https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7qYL_KT06-U Today Now! Host Undergoes Horrifically Painful Surgery Live On Air https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_5yR--35uqA How To Channel Your Road Rage Into Cold, Calculating Road Revenge https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuKnR8RvxHY

contextfree

It's called Global Tetrahedron but it has a dodecahedron as a logo/emblem (guessing intentional)

TheOtherHobbes

This is a very impressive satire on the Palantir manifesto. Accidental and ironic, but still impressive.