A furious and shirtless Alex Jones went on an unhinged rant after The Onion gained the rights to lease his site InfoWars, describing the parody news website as a group of “bodysnatchers.”
“Just because you’re wearing my shirt doesn’t mean you’re me, let’s be 100 percent clear about that,” the conspiracy theorist, naked from the waist up, raged Monday.
He continued: “The whole thing’s about defaming me. You can’t take something over and then act like you’re somebody, even if you say it’s a parody. You could do a parody of somebody, but not if you took something from them… So you guys, keep laughing, just like you did a year and a half ago.”
Jones’ outburst came shortly after The Onion revealed its planned relaunch of InfoWars as a satirical site, though the deal still requires court approval. The outlet’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, has so far gained the rights to lease InfoWars for $81,000 on a month-by-month basis for six months, until potential renewal.
If approved by the court, The Onion will use the license agreement to “transform one of the internet’s most notorious misinformation platforms into a new comedy network built for satire, internet culture and emerging creative voices,” according to a press release.
“This is what the left does,” Jones continued to fume Monday. “They try to silence you, then they misrepresent who you are. They’re bodysnatchers. They’re skin-walkers. They literally take your skin. This is gonna backfire big time folks.”
InfoWars went up for auction in 2024 after Jones failed to pay Sandy Hook families $1 billion for spreading misinformation about the school shooting, Mediaite reports.
Jones declared bankruptcy in 2022, and The Onion has been eyeing his outlet in the years since.
The Onion CEO Ben Collins plans to make InfoWars a parody of itself, with comedian Tim Heidecker playing the role of Jones, Mediaite reports.
Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager for the InfoWars site, asked Texas-based District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble to approve the licensing agreement, The New York Times reported.
“This is about accountability, and what comes next. We’re taking something that caused real harm and turning it into something much funnier, and ideally, more useful,” Collins said in a statement shared with The Independent.
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