Alex Jones Announces Shutdown of Infowars Conspiracy Platform

Right-wing conspiracist Alex Jones said his infamous Infowars platform has stopped broadcasting and shuttered its Austin headquarters.

Jones, in a video posted on X on Friday, blamed a court-appointed receiver who allegedly told him and his crew that they must leave the premises by midnight Thursday. Jones, on a Thursday Infowars broadcast, said it was his final transmission from the studio.

The Infowars website as of early Friday only said “Off Air.” Whether the Infowars website, store, and studio were shut down by Jones or the receiver was unclear as of Friday.

“It’s locked up and that’s it, and so we’re gone,” Jones said in a video Friday. “Now maybe in court we win, we get back in there or something but I don’t think that’s probably going to happen.” Jones said he would broadcast from a new website.

The shutdown comes despite a Texas state appeals court issuing a last-minute order pausing a move by satirical news website The Onion to license Infowars’ intellectual property.

The late Wednesday order by a three-judge panel of the Texas Court of Appeals, Third Circuit at Austin temporarily froze any asset turnover. The judges also paused a larger appeal of defamation judgments against Jones related to his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 was a hoax.

The order meant the receiver controlling Infowars parent Free Speech Systems LLC had to pause his bid to license the trademark and associated domains. Sandy Hook victims’ families who won nearly $1.3 billion in judgments made an unsuccessful attempt to reverse the pause at the Texas Supreme Court before a court hearing in Austin on Thursday afternoon, where a judge was expected to consider the licensing deal.

The receiver, Gregory S. Milligan of HMP Advisory Holdings LLC, last week filed papers seeking approval of the deal more than three years after Jones filed for bankruptcy. The Onion previously attempted to take over Infowars in 2024, but it was shut down by a Houston bankruptcy judge.

Onion CEO Ben Collins said Thursday on his Bluesky account that Texas courts created “an unprecedented situation” by pausing the receiver deal, rent couldn’t be paid, and it appeared that Infowars would shut down.

“Goodbye, get lost, and we’ll see you soon,” Collins said.

War Is Over LLC, an affiliate of The Onion owner Global Tetrahedron LLC, sought an exclusive license to use the Infowars IP for $81,000 per month over six months. The revenue is meant to be used for operational costs and to preserve the value of the Free Speech assets while a broader legal stay prevents a final sale. Collins has said the company intends to relaunch Infowars as a satirical property.

The Sandy Hook families’ motion to the Texas Supreme Court remains under review. In a filing Thursday in a federal district court, they accused Jones of a “flurry of serial filings” meant to mislead state courts and prevent the families from collecting “a single penny” on their final judgments.

Attorneys for Jones and the receiver didn’t respond to requests for comment Friday.

The receiver is represented by Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC. War Is Over is represented by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Jones is represented by Jordan & Ortiz PC and Broocks Law Firm.

The case is Heslin v. Jones, Tex. Dist. Ct., No. D-1-GN-18-001835, hearing 4/30/26.