Tim Heidecker Launches His Progressive Take on InfoWars This Week: ‘We’re in a Prove-It Phase’

The new InfoWars website will make you forget all about Alex Jones—eventually

The Onion's relaunch of InfoWars is burying Jones’s legacy with a perfectly weird website that maybe, just maybe, will get you off of social media.

Tim Heidecker Launches His Progressive Take on InfoWars This Week: ‘We’re in a Prove-It Phase’

It’s hard to think of a recent entertainment industry development that generated more goodwill than The Onion’s acquisition of InfoWars and instatement of Tim Heidecker as its creative director. On paper, The Onion’s satirical news bona fides and Heidecker’s commitment to genre-bending alternative comedy make them the perfect pairing to take over the hollowed-out shell of Alex Jones’ disgraced conspiracy brand and rebuild it as a comedy institut…

Onion CEO Ben Collins explains how Tim Heidecker's InfoWars moves beyond Alex Jones

It’s an idea that feels, first and foremost, like a joke: Global Tetrahedron, the company that now owns and publishes The Onion, former sister publication of The A.V. Club, announced back in 2024 that it was attempting to score the rights to Alex Jones’ long-running disinformation dispensary InfoWars in a bankruptcy fire sale. And yet, CEO Ben Collins has made it clear over the last two years that he’s completely serious about this potential acq…

The Onion relaunches InfoWars, Alex Jones’ right-wing conspiracy website, this week

It is surely wise to be on guard when preparing for an interview with an organization that perfected fake news decades before fake news was a thing.It is not crazy — is it? — to be suspicious when you arrive on time at the publication’s River North offices, ring the buzzer four times, and no one answers.And should you trust Jordan LaFlure, the man who finally comes to the door, when he says with far-too-serious delivery that such-and-such a room…