The lights go out at Alex Jones’ Infowars

After almost three decades, thousands of hours of broadcasts and countless conspiracy theories, the lights went off at Infowars last night. 

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“And all glory goes to Jesus Christ and our heavenly father,” Alex Jones said Thursday during his final appearance at the helm of his popular show, flanked by a dozen men holding plastic flutes of what appeared to be sparkling wine.

Jones, at times slurring his words, chugged his glass, raised his arms to the sky and flexed his muscles, vowing to keep broadcasting despite the loss of the Infowars brand — holdings tied up in legal proceedings over more than $1 billion in defamation judgments owed to the families of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

“The hell we’ve been through has only made us stronger,” Jones ended, asking his crew, “Would you have any other way?” 

And that was it. The Infowars website, once a repository for the country’s most outlandish and harmful conspiracy theories, attracting billions of views and raking in millions of dollars, now reads: “Off Air.”

Jones spent the days leading up to his final show attacking The Onion, the satirical news website expected to take over his assets after a yearslong court battle, and bemoaning the loss of his network and supporters. The Onion has been aggressively pursuing the Infowars brand and property since 2024, with plans to turn it into a website with comedic stories and videos that play on Jones’ style of conspiracy theorizing and grift. 

In the waning days of his Infowars broadcast, Jones likened himself to both a dog’s chew toy and a starving dog. An Infowars shutdown clock counted down the hours until he would be forced out of his studio and the website would go dark. 

“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. 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.” 

“War is over, if you want it,” Collins said, quoting Yoko Ono and John Lennon. 

The legal journey that ended Infowars has been complicated, and is far from over. It began with a series 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. Jones lost, and was slapped with a historic billion-dollar judgement, but he has so far made good on his promise not to pay the families. He and Infowars filed for bankruptcy in 2022, and in 2024, a judge ordered the liquidation of his assets.