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The Onion signs new deal to take over Alex Jones’ Infowars

South China Morning Post · · 254 words · By Tribune News Service
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“The satirical faux-news site The Onion has signed a new, restructured deal to take over Infowars from conspiracy peddler Alex Jones.”
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Multiple independent news sources (The New York Times, Mother Jones, and other web results) confirm that The Onion's parent company signed a deal to take over/license Infowars from Alex Jones.
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web search NEUTRAL — The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The shallot is a botanical var…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion
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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 5, 2025 · This is an incredibly detailed article about onions and their nutrition content. The health effects of onions (both good and bad) are explained thoroughly.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/onions
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 14, 2026 · Onion, herbaceous biennial plant in the amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae) grown for its edible bulb. Onions are low in nutrients but are valued for their flavor and are used widely in c…
https://www.britannica.com/plant/onion-plant
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“the Onion would license Infowars from Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager of the site since August 2025”
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Multiple sources confirm Gregory Milligan as the court-appointed manager and that The Onion would license the site from him.
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web search NEUTRAL — Under the new terms, the Onion would license Infowars from Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager of the site since August 2025, instead of buying its assets outright for US$1.75 million, as pa…
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article…
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web search NEUTRAL — Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager controlling Infowars' parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, reads notes before a hearing on the proposed licensing agreement for The Onion to take cont…
https://www.barchart.com/story/news/1628739/the-onion-s-bid-…
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web search NEUTRAL — 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo…
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“parent company Global Tetrahedron initially tried to do in a 2024 auction [buy assets outright for US$1.75 million]”
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Multiple sources, including Mother Jones and other reports, confirm Global Tetrahedron initially bid $1.75 million in a 2024 auction to buy assets.
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web search NEUTRAL — The offer made by Global Tetrahedron included $1.75 million in cash and “a distributable proceeds waiver” agreeing to forego some portion of what is owed to the Connecticut families.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/the-onions-bid-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The fictitious CEO of Global Tetrahedron LLC, The Onion’s parent company, called InfoWars an “invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/14/not-a-parody-the-o…
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web search NEUTRAL — Global Tetrahedron had submitted a $1.75 million cash offer with plans to kick Jones out and relaunch Infowars in January as a parody. The bid also included a deal with many of the Sandy Hook families…
https://www.abc4.com/news/entertainment-news/ap-entertainmen…
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“Under the new agreement, submitted Monday to Texas state Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, Global Tetrahedron will pay US$81,000 a month for six months.”
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Three independent web results confirm the specific payment of $81,000 a month for six months submitted to Judge Maya Guerra Gamble.
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web search NEUTRAL — Under a proposed deal, Infowars would be leased by Global Tetrahedron, a Chicago-based company that owns the Onion, for $81,000 a month for six months.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/the-onion-al…
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web search NEUTRAL — 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 mont…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo…
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web search NEUTRAL — Under the new agreement, submitted Monday to Texas state Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, Global Tetrahedron will pay US$81,000 a month for six months. That will cover licensing rights to the Infowars websit…
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article…
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“That will cover licensing rights to the Infowars website and intellectual property, as well as rent for Infowars’ studios, utilities and other costs.”
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The evidence explicitly states that the $81,000 monthly payment covers licensing rights to the website, intellectual property, rent for studios, and utilities.
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web search NEUTRAL — Infowars is an American far-right, conspiracy theorist, and fake news website, which was created by Alex Jones. Founded in 1999, it operated under Free Speech Systems LLC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infowars
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web search NEUTRAL — Infowars: There's a War on for Your Mind!
https://www.infowars.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — If you have Telegram, you can view and join INFOWARS.COM right away.
https://t.me/infowarslive
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“Infowars was put up for sale in 2024, after Jones lost defamation suits filed by victims’ families following the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.”
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Wikipedia and other news sources confirm Infowars was put up for sale in 2024 due to defamation lawsuits regarding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
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web search NEUTRAL — Infowars was auctioned as part of a defamation ruling after Jones falsely called the Sandy Hook School shooting a hoax.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30p1p0j0ddo
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web search NEUTRAL — Infowars host Alex Jones promoted the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories, claiming that the massacre of twenty elementary school students and six staff members was "completely f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infowars
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web search NEUTRAL — The sale of Infowars is part of Jones’ personal bankruptcy case, which he filed in late 2022 after he was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in defamation lawsuits in Connecticut and Texas filed by re…
https://fortune.com/2024/12/11/judge-rejects-sale-alex-jones…
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“the gunman murdered his mother before heading to the school, where he killed six educators and 20 first-graders before shooting himself.”
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Wikipedia and other authoritative sources confirm the shooter killed his mother, 20 children, and 6 staff members before committing suicide.
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web search NEUTRAL — On December 14, 2012, he fatally shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their home in Newtown, Connecticut, before driving to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed 20 children between the ages of si…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Lanza
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web search NEUTRAL — Little is known about why Adam Lanza killed his mother, six educators and 20 first-graders before killing himself. The media replayed the few details that were known, but the traumatic incident left m…
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/06/27/after-newtown/
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web search NEUTRAL — 14, 2012 when he shot his mother, Nancy Lanza and then went to the Sandy Hook Elementary School where he massacred 20 first-graders and six educators before taking his own life.
https://abcnews.com/US/disturbing-things-learned-today-sandy…
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“Jones eventually admitted in court that the massacre was “100 per cent real”.”
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While the evidence confirms Alex Jones was sued for calling the event a hoax and that judgments were finalized, the provided evidence snippets do not explicitly quote him admitting in court that the massacre was '100 per cent real'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Supreme Court Deals Final Blow to Alex Jones Appeal On October 14, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court declined Alex Jones' appeal, effectively finalizing the $1.4 billion defamation judgment against the con…
https://allaboutlawyer.com/alex-jones-sandy-hook-lawsuit-sup…
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web search NEUTRAL — In addition to the $1.4 billion judgment from the Connecticut lawsuit, Jones is facing a nearly $50 million judgment from a Texas court, also for his claims that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/14/supr…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jones was ordered to make the payout in 2022 for claiming the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School - which killed 20 schoolchildren and six educators - was a hoax.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypjjxd40qo
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