The Onion Reaches New Deal to Take Over InfoWars

The Onion has announced a new deal to take over InfoWars, the website founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Pending approval by a judge, The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, will license the website and its associated intellectual property from InfoWars’ court-appointed manager, Gregory Milligan, for $81,000 per month, as first reported by The New York Times. After an initial six-month period, there will be an option to renew the deal for another six months.

“A lot of institutions and people gave up on doing the right thing over the last two years. Despite an insane amount of threats and bullshit, we persevered,” Global Tetrahedron CEO Ben Collins said in a statement. “Eight years, almost to the day, after the Sandy Hook parents first filed suit against Alex Jones, they’ll finally get some justice, and even some money. You will get a new home for funny things on the internet, a tote bag with a good logo on it, and a great newspaper made by human beings in your real-life mailbox.”

Tim Heidecker will serve as creative director of the new InfoWars, which will initially parody Alex Jones’ entire “modus operandi.” As Heidecker told The Times, the site will eventually be transformed into “this beautiful place for our creativity” once the premise runs its course. The Onion also plans to sell merch, with part of the proceeds benefiting the Sandy Hook families. “We are excited to lie constantly for cold, hard cash, but this time in a cool way, and we’ll make sure some of it gets back to the families,” Collins said.

This announcement comes after a federal bankruptcy judge rejected the sale of InfoWars to The Onion in December 2024. InfoWars had been in limbo since Jones declared bankruptcy in 2022 after a jury awarded $1.4 billion to the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. Jones had spent years claiming the tragedy was a hoax.

At the time, Judge Christopher M. Lopez said The Onion had not submitted the best bid for Jones’ creditors, despite a bankruptcy trustee and the families supporting the sale.

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.

— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2026-04-20T17:04:33.386Z