The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy NYT | Top Stories Benjamin Mullin and Elizabeth Williamson 15 November 2024 at 08:18 The satirical news site intends to turn Infowars into a parody of itself. But the court overseeing the bankruptcy put a hold on the sale pending a hearing next week. © David J. Phillip/Associated PressAlex Jones, the founder of Infowars, outside a federal courthouse in Houston ahead of a bankruptcy hearing in June.