https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2026/04/20/549630/the-onion-says-its-finally-acquired-alex-jones-austin-based-infowars/Alex Jones’ Infowars, a decades-long source of conspiracy theories, has been acquired by The Onion.The satirical media outlet said Monday it finally acquired the controversial show hosted by Jones after roughly 18 months of back and forth in a Texas bankruptcy court. Jones was sued for defamation by victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, which killed 20 children and six adults, for referring to them as “crisis actors.” Courts in Texas and Connecticut ordered the conspiracy theorist to liquidate his assets to pay back roughly $1.5 billion in liability.The Onion CEO Ben Collins told journalist Pablo Torre that the company would follow through on its plans to take over the show, while also sharing profits with victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.“We want them to be able to get paid for real at some point with actual human dollars as part of this process,” he said. “We have taken over the Infowars studio and the IP and the website and all of that stuff.”Collins said the transition would be finalized “within a couple of days.”KUT News reached out to The Onion and Jones’ bankruptcy attorney for confirmation on the sale but hasn’t yet heard back.
Jones teased the acquisition last month on a podcast.“We’ve beaten so many attacks,” Jones said. “But, finally, we’re shutting down in the middle of next month.”Jones’ assets are being sold off in a Texas bankruptcy court, including the South Austin studio that hosts Infowars and any equipment used to produce content for the website. Jones tried to block the sale of Infowars to The Onion in 2024, and last year, a judge rejected his attempt to throw out the defamation judgment.Since then, Free Speech Systems, the Infowars parent company, has been slowly selling off property to pay plaintiffs over the last few months.Collins told Torre he plans on continuing programming as Infowars with some rebranding and reshuffling. The site plans to replace the “o” in “Infowars” with The Onion‘s logo, and Collins said the show will bring on comedian Tim Heidecker as a potential replacement host.
They could change nothing and it’d be good satire
>>1507698Alex knew the writing was on the wall for his Infowhoring when a retard appeared there which made the whole operation go beyond satire....and also Nick FuentesThat day, the whole world knew that the writing was also on the wall for Kan'tye Worst's credibility.Three lolcows on one internet show. The Onion couldn't make it up.
Maybe they will finally mention Jared Kushner. No one else dares to do that now. He is running things from Dubai and making a shit ton of money and the media refuses to mention him at all.
>>1507698They should find a completely unrelated guy named Alex Jones to host.
>>1507698HOLY SHIT CAN I WRITE FOR IT, NOW?
>>1507705dude if this just becomes "Reporting on reality but it's using infowars so nobody takes it seriously" arm of the onion this would be the greatest timeline
>>1507708I'm not sure Alex Jones is even Alex Jones' real name.
>>1507713>Featuring our host, Alex Jones: a bisexual fitness coach from Pennsylvania
>>1507712This might be the 4d move we need right now.
>>1507705>>1507712>maybe they'll do whatever I say they should!>the retarded concept that is 'timelines'>Nothing HappensNice fanfic. Fanfiction.net might accept that.
>>1507712>>1507723They need to find an Indian/African American named Alex Jones to rant constantly about how the deep state dyed him to discredit his views
>>1507724Yes, in this timeline a burned out radio show host tried to make a ripoff of a more popular radio show host and ended up getting sued for a billion dollars and losing.
>>1507747>a burned out radio show host tried to make a ripoff of a more popular radio show host and ended up getting sued for a billion dollars and losing.Good
A billion dollar fine for having a conspiracy theory in America. Disgusting.
>>1507794He got the fine for fucking around with court orders and failing to appear for deposition.His lawyers accidentally showed that he failed to turn over texts he was obliged to turn over:https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088639577/alex-jones-skipped-his-sandy-hook-deposition-againhttps://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1115456019/sandy-hook-families-lawyer-says-he-was-given-2-years-of-alex-jones-text-messages
>>1507795>he failed to turn over texts he was obliged to turn overThey asked him to turn over google analytics data, which is the property of google. And then they fined him to the tune of a third world nation's GDP.
>>1507800Do you actually get any replies that believe your lies outside of facebook?
>>1507698So Alex Jones incurred a 1.5 billion liability for talking about the Sandy Hook shooting which killed 20 children and 6 adults.How much did the person responsible for shooting the 20 children and 6 adults get sued for?
>>1507803hey look, the retard is trying to think
>>1507804Only a retard would think that someone talking about a person shooting 20 children and 6 adults should get punished more by the legal system than the person actually responsible for shooting those 20 children and 6 adults to death
>>1507803>>1507808>How much did the person responsible for shooting the 20 children and 6 adults get sued for?Adam Lanza shot himself at the scene you retard.
>>1507803>gets sued for murderYou should write a sci fi novella about a society where the only law enforcement is that you can get sued. You can have this idea for free, go in peace
>>1507808So you're pretending that Alex Jones was only talking about the shooting? Some on, keep thinking. We know its hard.
>>1507809You can sue dead peoplehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_of_Michael_Jackson#Lawsuitshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_Estate#Legal_issuesAlex Jones wasn't being charged criminally, the sandy hook 1.5 billion was a civil case. They could have sued Adam Lanza's estate
>>1507811Is the claim that Alex Jones orchestrated the shooting?That Adam Lanza only shot up the school on Alex Jone's orders?If Alex Jones did more than talk, what was it, specifically?
>>1507810https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson#Wrongful_death_civil_trialWere you not alive during the late 90s?OJ Simpson was found Not Guilty for the criminal case of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.>On February 5, 1997, a civil jury in Santa Monica, California, unanimously found Simpson liable for the wrongful death of and battery against Goldman, and battery against Brown. (The Brown family had not filed a wrongful death claim.)[159] Simpson was ordered to pay $33,500,000 in damages: $8.5 million in compensatory damages to the Goldman family, and $12.5 million in punitive damages to each family.[160] His net worth at the time was $11 million.[16]OJ Simpson was sued for Murder. I'm surprised you never heard about it, it was a rather big case.
>>1507814>If Alex Jones did more than talk, what was it, specifically?Its almost like there was a whole documented court case that went over this and found he was liable.
>>1507819And yet there was no court case against Adam Lanza, the guy actually responsible for shooting 20 children and 6 adults?Alex Jones has to pay 1.5 billion dollars, the guy who pulled the trigger on all those kids has to pay $0
>>1507822he's dead and literally had no estate you retard.
>>1507822So you're just too dumb to actually parse this?hint: Lanza has nothing to do with Jones' case
>>1507812>>1507822Reminder that the reason they got a billion dollar payout was because that was what they determined to be the amount of profit Jones made off of organizing their harassment. Lanza meanwhile made $0 because he blew his fucking brains out when the cops showed up.
>>1507824You are telling me the case against Alex Jones has nothing to do with the Sandy Hook Elementary School Mass shooting, where Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults?
>>1507826Nope, try again eslget AI to help you if you're having problems understanding english
>>1507825I would love to see the accounting which showed HOW he made 1.5 billion dollars from organizing harassment against these parents. It's incredible
>>1507816You need to lead to read. I said the ONLY law enforcement would be litigation, so imagine if you will there’s no more criminal courts only civil courts and judges will only award monetary compensation/damages
>>1507829I was responding to you saying >gets sued for murderas though it was something ridiculous, and not something that happens infrequently. Because civil cases have a lower threshold. Criminal cases require guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, while civil cases can tip on a balance of probabilities
>>1507823The house he and his mom were living in was owned by her, it wasn't a rental. There was an estate. But they weren't interested in going after that.They were more interested in suing the person talking about the Sandy Hook mass shooting over the person actually responsible for shooting those 20 children and 6 adults
It's funny as a fuck you to Alex Jones but his time in the sun has already long faded anyways.
>>1507831Yeah. And it was the right decisionKeep crying about it, retard
>>1507833That makes 0 sense.If Alex Jones got sued for 1.5 billion dollars for talking about it, Adam Lanza's estate should have been sued for at least 4.5 billion dollars for shooting to death those 20 children and 6 adults
>>1507834why
>>1507831They did sue the mom's estate, dumbass. She was also murdered by him too by the way.They sued Alex Jones for his harassment campaign against them. He wasn't just 'talking about' it, you disingenuous liar.Wow, It's almost like these are 2 separate events.
>>1507831You can't sue a corpse. Lanza killed himself before even the law could get him.
>>1507837https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/04/429333351/families-of-newtown-massacre-victims-reach-1-5-million-settlementSo Adam Lanza's family estate had to pay 1.5 million, and Alex Jones had to pay 1.5 billion dollars
>>1507839I've heard stories about Michael Jackson's estate being sued multiple times since Michael Jackson died in 2009
>>1507836Because the proportion of damage is completely inverse.It would make more sense if Alex Jones was sued for 1.5 million, and Adam Lanza's estate was sued for 1.5 billion, instead of the other way around.Because I believe that shooting your child is 100 times worse than talking about how that kid didn't actually die and was some crisis actor.
>>1507843He already explained that Jones was sued relative to the profits he’d made doing the thing he was sued for
>>1507830I’ll make you a cup of tea next time you visit ok, friend
>>1507849Now you are talking, I would be happy to talk about your book idea over teaI never wrote a sci fi novella before
>>1507847I'd love to see the explanation for how they arrived at that number.
>>1507794He got fined for defaming grieving families and encouraging people to harass them
>>1507857It was literally an entire part of the trial.
>>1507840Lanza was a middle-class family. That's probably all the mum's estate HAD.
>>1507866One that wasn't made availible to the public as far as I know, so I would like to see that explanation
>>1507876Questioning the circumstances surrounding a strangely undocumented school shooting is a literal attack on the parents of those children, don't you understand?
>>1507794>DisgustingYes, having wrong opinions is disgusting.This now sets a precedent: have wrong opinions, you deserve to be financially destroyed.
>>1507801It's in the trial anon.
>>1507884Harassing the parents of dead kids for money is disgusting. It's actually very easy to avoid doing that, so if you do you do deserve to get financially destroyed.
>>1507882>Strangely undocumented There are plenty of photos of the blood in the classrooms or were you expecting them to release photos of dead children?
>>1507891>blood in the classroomsThere weren't any pictures of the bodies, the police weren't allowed to enter the school, they demolished the school afterwards, and the people who were asked to investigate the shooting were later forced to sign NDAs.>but muh conspiracy!The reason why Alex Jones et al. questioned the shooting is because every single time there's a shooting in America it's highly documented and scrutinized. Every single square inch of Columbine has been documented, combed through, and recreated through film numerous times. And then the courts decided to hit Alex Jones with a billion dollar fine for asking questions.Same shit with the Las Vegas shooting. Single most deadly mass shooting in US history, but nobody wants to talk about it, and the people closest to the perp got caught with incriminating shit on their computers.
>>1507904Oh and I forgot to mention, the demolished the shooter's house too. What the fuck is that?Can't ask questions due to the highly litigious nature of the parents though.
>>1507904https://allaboutlawyer.com/alex-jones-sandy-hook-lawsuit-supreme-court-upholds-1-4-billion-verdict-against-infowars-host/Alex Jones is definitively, constitutionally, absolutely wrong and the judgement was upheld at the highest level. If you're still confused, its your problem.
>>1507907>the judgement was upheld at the highest levelWow the system punished the guy questioning this really weird shooting huh? Never heard that one before.
>>1507909of course you think that way, you're a retarded magafag who supports beating cops to death
>>1507907Did any of the judges acknowledge the disproportionate nature of the punishments? (1.5 million for the Shooter's family estate, 1.5 billion for Alex Jones)
>>1507913upholdverbup·hold (ˌ)əp-ˈhōld upheld (ˌ)əp-ˈheld ; upholdingSynonyms of upholdtransitive verb1a: to give support touphold a traditionuphold the Constitutionb: to support against an opponent2a: to keep elevatedb: to lift up3law : to judge to be valid : let standuphold a statuteThe court upheld the agency's decision.
>>1507911You're literally advocating for punishing people that question the government, you fucking retard. You're a bigger authoritarian dickhead than Trump is.
>>1507915no, but I understand that you're confused because you're a shill who literally doesn't understand english
>>1507917>noYes idiot. Jones didn't harass the parents himself. He was sued because he questioned the state's investigation, intimated that the state conducted a false flag attack, and the state agreed that 1.5 billion was as adequate price to pay for exercising his first amendment rights.
>>1507888And spewing wrong opinions which causes others to harass innocent parents is the most disgusting thing of all.All that money you're being legally forced to pay to those parents of murdered kids, Al. And soon you won't have a platform to spew retarded - and wrong - opinions on. The Onion's gonna make you cry, Jonesy. Like Instant Karma, Cancel Culture's gonna get you.Let the schadenfreude flow.
>>1507918>He was sued because he questioned the state's investigation, intimated that the state conducted a false flag attack, and the state agreed that 1.5 billion was as adequate price to pay for exercising his first amendment rights.So you're just retarded enough that you can't complain about what happened to Jones without lying. Got it.
>>1507904They weren’t going to release photos of a pile of dead children. Thats real fucked up you know that right?
>>1507919How much do we punish people for wrong opinions?The Iraq War in 2003 was a mistake. Saddam Hussein didn't have any WMDs. When CNN repeated that Saddam had WMDs and they re-aired statements by Colin Powell or Condeleeza rice that amounted to as much.Did Colin Powell get sued for a billion and a half dollars because of his Iraq War incorrect opinions?Did Dick Cheney?
>>1508155>>How much do we punish people for wrong opinions?How does that relate to this thread?
>>1508155Those aren’t opinions. They were either lying about it or they’d been lied to about it and possibly hadn’t done due diligence, but it’s not an opinion to state that you believe Iraq had wmd’s at that point in time
>>1508155How does Iraq sue CNN in a US court?
>>1508191What I’m saying is that a statement of belief is not an opinion. Opinions can only apply to subjective things, not objective. If it’s a noon on a clear sunny day it’s not an opinion to say that it isn’t the middle of the night
>>1508162>I believe Iraq has WMDs!>thousands dead, billions wasted, zero accomplished. >The people who told the original lie got 0 punishment>I believe that Sandy Hook was a hoax!>dozens of parents harassed, thousands spent on buying security systems>The person responsible gets fined for 1.5 billion dollars
>>1508205>John Wayne Gacey born a white male>Executed May 10, 1994>Why are we executing people for being born white and male?
What Jones said about Sandy Hook. He was taken to court, lost, was reduced to appealing the ultimate arbiters of what the US Constitution means & doesn't mean, the SCOTUS rejected his appeal, he's now financially destroyed: and due to what he said.Unless you're a member of SCOTUS, your opinion(s) on the matter don't count for shit now, Jones-defenders of /news/. The precedent has been set: and by no less than the SCOTUS telling Al to fuck off, and the opinions mule he rode in on. His 1st Amendment rights re. opinions don't count for shit now. His opinions became thoughtcrime, and he's in his Room 101. Good.He wouldn't be there if never allowed wrong opinions to exist in his retarded brain cell in the first place. Being a loudmouth rightard has ultimately done for him, The Sandy Hook families are richer at his expense, and The Onion will own his platform.Having wrong opinions has destroyed him. Good.
>>1507708>>1507712They just released a trailer for one of the first shows. It's the guy that does the morning show on The Onion, Today Now! host Jim Haggerty, doing a literal piss take of Steve Bannon's War Room. He's got this act like he was part of mainstream media and now he's free and fighting back. Looks fun.
>>1508258>His 1st Amendment rights re. opinions don't count for shit now. His opinions became thoughtcrimeYou didn't even look at the transcript of the De La Rosa v Jones case did you? Jones spent two years going after Posner and De La Rosa because they told YouTube to take down InfoWars videos that referenced their dead kid. When YT did - Jones got mad and got his followers on them. He's on record in the evidence submitted in discovery saying as much.Jones didn't have a civil action against him because of his opinion, he had a civil action filed on him because he acted in malice as part of his defamation.
>>1508263>You didn't even look at the transcript of the De La Rosa v Jones case did you?>the SCOTUS told Jones & his unappealing 'appeal' to fuck off>Jones legally forced to pay the Sandy Hook familiesWhat part of 'Unless you're a member of SCOTUS, your opinion(s) on the matter don't count for shit now, Jones-defenders of /news/' don't you understand?And with this precedent set due to the SCOTUS telling Al to go fuck himself, why should I care about your opinions? The SCOTUS don't care about his after all.
>>1508264Not sure what you are arguing? There was no precedent set in the Jones case by the lower appellate court or the SC because judgements like this one have been in place since the 60's in the US.The Jones case wasn't brought because of his opinion on Sandy Hook. He wasn't charged with thoughtcrime. It was brought because he was found to be malicious to the point of causing harm to the plaintiffs.
>>1508270And what part of 'why should I care about your opinions?' don't you understand?
>>1508272that's an interesting way of saying you lost the argument again
>>1508273>I'll never make the SCOTUS change their mind about Jones' financial destruction with my BS here in /news/I accept your concession
>>1508162Saying that Sandy Hook was staged and all the kids were crisis actors was a bad take, an incorrect summation of events, a bad call
>>1508284Jones had his chance to argue a mistake of fact in court. He resisted discovery and couldn't keep his story straight.
>>1508296esl shill is just tilted this afternoon
>>1508284Jones should of said this and then apologized and offered a million bucks to all the families and maybe that’d be ok but that’s not what he did
>>1508296I don't think he had many chances at court. He seemed to have been railroaded by the entire affair
>>1508304Unrepentant criminials are often railroaded by the court, yes
>>1508304>He seemed to have been railroaded by the entire affairHe literally railroaded himself by refusing to show up to proceedings. It's actually incredibly easy to show up to a court date; especially if you've got an entire media empire to fund your transport there.
