New Infowars owner bids merciless 'good riddance' to 'rubbish' Alex Jones

Alex Jones speaking with attendees at The People's Convention at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan. Flickr/Gage Skidmore

After almost 30 years of broadcasts and MAGA-style conspiracy theories, MS NOW reports the lights are off at Infowars on Friday. And the new company owner couldn’t be more pleased to see founder Alex Jones bump the door on the way out.

“Good riddance to the world’s worst rubbish,” The Onion’s CEO, Ben Collins, wrote in a text to MS NOW. “The second this man is disallowed from abusing these courts, from paying out the $1.4 billion he owes to these families, we are ready to take over with something that will make you forget about what was ever there before.”

MS NOW reports the legal dismantling of one of President Donald Trump’s most reliable propaganda networks — at least until recently — is far from over, but it began with a group of defamation lawsuits filed in Connecticut and Texas by family members of Sandy Hook victims, who argued Jones had damaged them with years of claims that the school shooting was a hoax.

With Jones’ conspiracy claims plastered across the internet, there was no place to deny it, so the judge slapped him with a historic billion-dollar judgement. MS NOW reports Jones has “made good on his promise not to pay the families,” having filed for bankruptcy in 2022 and in 2024. But a judge ordered the liquidation of his assets, which opened the door to comedy site The Onion gathering the pieces under ownership.

“The Onion, helmed by Collins, a former NBC News reporter on the disinformation beat, came forward with a bid, supported by many of the Sandy Hook families,” reports MS NOW. “The Onion initially won, but a judge granted Jones’ request to block the sale, arguing that another offer by a company that happened to operate Jones’ online supplements store had been higher. But in April, there seemed to be a workaround — Jones’ estate had run out of money and instead of buying it in an auction, The Onion could just pay rent in a licensing deal. On Wednesday, a Texas appeals court stopped the transfer again, temporarily blocking the asset handover.”

But unable to afford rent, Jones closed up shop.

“The hell we’ve been through has only made us stronger,” Jones told his staff during his last appearance on Thursday.

But Collins has his own plan for Jones’ “hell.”

“We have a deal with both the Sandy Hook families and the court-appointed receiver, and we look forward to taking over this hellhole imminently,” Collins told MS NOW.

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