Alex Jones isn’t going down without a fight, and he’s making sure his audience knows it.
Hours after satirical news outlet The Onion announced Monday that it had reached a deal to license Infowars, Jones took to social media and his own broadcast to dispute the announcement, vow to continue his show and promise legal action against what he described as an effort to silence him.
“The Onion Has Fraudulently Claimed AGAIN That It Owns Infowars!!!” Mr. Jones posted on X, accusing the publication of planning to “steal and misrepresent” his identity. Appearing shirtless behind the Infowars desk, Mr. Jones alleged The Onion was plotting to “misrepresent” him in an attempt to “confuse people” and defame him.
On his Monday broadcast, Mr. Jones was more measured but no less defiant.
“I’m going to continue the exact same show,” he told viewers. “It’ll just be called the ’Alex Jones Show.’ So, it’s the same satellite, same system. It’s a different news site and news studio. So I’m not going anywhere.”
Mr. Jones acknowledged that he and his staff could be removed from the Infowars building if the judge approves the deal, but said he is preparing to continue broadcasting from a separate studio.
The agreement Mr. Jones is fighting is a licensing deal between The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, and Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed administrator overseeing Infowars’ assets. Under the proposed terms, Global Tetrahedron would pay $81,000 a month to cover rent, utilities and other costs associated with the Infowars studio space, with any profits generated during the licensing period going to the Sandy Hook families. The deal is not final — it requires approval from Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Travis County, Texas, where a hearing is scheduled for April 30.
Mr. Jones has said he plans to fight the proposal in court. Even if Judge Guerra Gamble approves it, Mr. Jones retains the right to appeal — a legal avenue he has pursued at every stage of a saga stretching back to 2018 defamation suits filed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.
Mr. Jones was found liable for defamation in 2022 after repeatedly claiming the 2012 massacre, in which 20 children and six adults were killed, was staged. He has yet to pay a cent of the more than $1 billion in damages owed to the families. In October 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal of the $1.4 billion Connecticut judgment — the largest defamation award in U.S. history — leaving it in place.
Mr. Jones implored his audience Monday to support his fight by purchasing what he warned could be Infowars’ last run of new merchandise. “In the potential twilight of Infowars itself as Infowars.com, we’ve launched a whole bunch of new shirts and hats that are limited edition,” he said on air.
The Onion’s CEO, Ben Collins, has shown little patience for Mr. Jones’ objections.
“A lot of institutions and people gave up on doing the right thing over the last two years. Despite an insane amount of threats and bullshit, we persevered,” Mr. Collins said in a statement.
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