The Onion launches new bid to take control of Alex Jones' Infowars
Summary
The Onion plans to take temporary control of Infowars, the platform owned by Alex Jones, as his company faces bankruptcy over large defamation fines. The Onion wants to run Infowars as a parody site and share profits with families of Sandy Hook victims.Key Facts
- Alex Jones' company, Free Speech Systems, owes over $1 billion in defamation judgments related to false claims about the Sandy Hook shooting.
- The Onion proposed to get a temporary license to Infowars’ intellectual property to run it as a comedy site.
- The deal needs approval from a Texas judge and could start around April 30.
- The Onion has hired comedian Tim Heidecker to help manage the parody site.
- Profits from the new Infowars operations would go to the Sandy Hook families.
- Alex Jones said he will fight the licensing proposal but plans to continue his show from a new studio and on other platforms.
- A court-appointed receiver oversees the sale of Infowars' assets to pay damages to the victims' families.
- Jones has appealed some court rulings but lost major defamation trials and filed for bankruptcy in 2022.
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