Onion Launches New Bid to Take over Infowars

Onion launches new bid to take over Infowars

The satirical news outlet The Onion is back with a new plan to take over the Infowars platforms of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as his company faces liquidation over more than $1 billion in defamation judgments owed to relatives of…

Alex Jones Handling The Onion's Infowars Hostile Takeover About As Well As You'd Expect

Third-easiest photoshoop ever.Nearly a year and a half after we briefly celebrated the news that The Onion would take over Alex Jones’s conspiracy-mongering website InfoWars, it looks like it’s finally happening for real. The Onion, through its real corporate identity “Global Tetrahedron” (and fake CEO “Bryce P. Tetraeder”) announced this week that it has reached an agreement to take over InfoWars and convert it into a parody of itself. That’s s…

Alex Jones lost Infowars—and now he’s losing his sh-t

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is losing his empire of lies, deception, and dubious brain pills—and he’s not happy about it.

Alex Jones has uncovered another massive conspiracy

Alex Jones is onto something. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz / Getty Images Alex Jones may soon lose Infowars, the digital perch that he's used for decades to traffic in conspiracy theories, to The Onion, the satirical newspaper. But not before he's uncovered something truly dastardly: comedian Tim Heidecker's past (publicly available) work. "The Onion newspaper has been rocked by the discovery that their new creative director, produced pro pedo/chil…

Week-long Alex Jones freak out culminates in claim 'Satanists' are taking over Infowars

As the satirical news outlet the Onion launches another bid to take over the far-right platform Infowars from conspiracy pundit Alex Jones, he and his allies are not taking the news well. To the contrary, they’re freaking out and accusing the Onion of being “Satanic.”The story dates back to 2022, when Jones lost a defamation suit and was ordered to pay over $1 billion in damages to the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shoo…

The Onion's CEO talks about ‘the fight of a lifetime’ for Alex Jones' InfoWars

The Onion CEO Ben Collins discussed in an interview what led him to a new bid for control of InfoWars, the website of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.