The Onion’s Rebooted Infowars Is Coming July 2nd

The Onion’s InfoWars officially has a motorboat date: On July 2nd, nan 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 nan satirical news tract was moving to acquire nan spot owned by Jones, a conspiracy theorist who notably targeted victims of nan Sandy Hook schoolhouse shooting.

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

“The aid represents nan first costs nan families will person arsenic a nonstop consequence of nan waste process surrounding InfoWars,” nan property merchandise reads. After losing a defamation suit, Jones was ordered successful 2022 to salary $1.5 cardinal to nan families of nan 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, nan 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 nan takeover of InfoWars, The Onion would licence nan InfoWars brand from nan court-appointed head of nan property. Heidecker told Wired that nan tract is “in limbo” but that The Onion is going up pinch nan relaunch anyway.

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