{"id":72214,"date":"2026-04-20T15:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/the-onion-plans-to-lease-alex-joness-infowars-after-judge-blocks-purchase\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:57:42","slug":"the-onion-plans-to-lease-alex-joness-infowars-after-judge-blocks-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/the-onion-plans-to-lease-alex-joness-infowars-after-judge-blocks-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones\u2019s Infowars after judge blocks purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The satirical website\u2019s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Satirical website the Onion plans to turn rightwing commentator Alex Jones\u2019s misinformation site Infowars into a parody of itself under a leasing agreement provisionally approved by a Texas court.<\/p>\n<p>Under a proposed deal with court administrators, Infowars would be leased by Global Tetrahedron, a Chicago-based company that owns the Onion, for $81,000 a month for six months, with an option to renew for another six months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/20\/the-onion-alex-jones-infowars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The satirical website\u2019s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Satirical website the Onion plans to turn rightwing commentator Alex Jones\u2019s misinformation site Infowars into a parody of itself under a leasing agreement provisionally &#8230; <a title=\"The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones\u2019s Infowars after judge blocks purchase\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/the-onion-plans-to-lease-alex-joness-infowars-after-judge-blocks-purchase\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones\u2019s Infowars after judge blocks purchase\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}