The Onion’s rebooted InfoWars is coming July 2nd

The Onion’s InfoWars officially has a motorboat date: On July 2nd, the conspiracy web antecedently tally by Alex Jones will return arsenic a drama and media platform. The reboot comes much than a twelvemonth and a half aft news collapsed that the satirical news tract was moving to acquire the spot owned by Jones, a conspiracy theorist who notably targeted victims of the Sandy Hook schoolhouse shooting.

“Developed pinch the support of the Sandy Hook families, the caller InfoWars is being reimagined arsenic a drama and taste level featuring original programming, impermanent talent, and caller comedic voices,” a property merchandise reads. “The task reflects The Onion’s broader imagination to build a modern, internet-native drama ecosystem rooted successful curation, creativity, and nonstop assemblage engagement.”

The institution says the relaunch coincides pinch a $100,000 aid to the Sandy Hook families that was raised done merch income related to the project, and it says it will beryllium “the first of many.”

“The aid represents the first costs the families will person arsenic a nonstop consequence of the waste process surrounding InfoWars,” the property merchandise reads. After losing a defamation suit, Jones was ordered successful 2022 to salary $1.5 cardinal to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting, which he for years has called a hoax.

The caller InfoWars is led by comedian Tim Heidecker, who Jones spent respective episodes attempting to undermine arsenic he was astir to suffer his show. The Onion has teased its type of InfoWars in respective societal media clips: One clip features a recurring Onion character, the fictional newscaster Jim Haggerty, returning arsenic a conspiracy-brained podcaster. Haggerty antecedently hosted Today Now!, The Onion’s regular talkshow, and Porkin’ Across America, a nutrient recreation show successful which — spoiler — Haggerty yet turns into a pig.

Under the existent projected deal for the takeover of InfoWars, The Onion would licence the InfoWars brand from the court-appointed head of the property. Heidecker told Wired that the tract is “in limbo” but that The Onion is going up pinch the relaunch anyway.

“The communicative isn’t really astir InfoWars anymore. It’s astir what happens erstwhile you return a level that was built astir bullshit and fearfulness and move it into thing that supports funny, quality worldly instead,” Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion said successful an email. “At a infinitesimal erstwhile truthful overmuch of media is shrinking, we’re investing successful comedians, creators, and original programming because we deliberation group want thing better, made by people.”

InfoWars will premier astatine 8PM ET connected the 2nd astatine theonion.info and connected The Onion’s societal media channels.

Update June 18th: Added remark from Ben Collins.