Okay, let me fix this one because there is so much better stuff in the actual story I skimmed before. **The Onion’s officially setting a hard launch date for their InfoWars takeover: July 2nd at 8 PM ET.** You can catch it at theonion.info and on all their social channels, which they've already been flooding with teasers. This isn't just some quick parody — it's an actual acquisition of the brand from a court-appointed manager after Alex Jones lost his $1.5B defamation judgment in 2022 over the Sandy Hook hoax claims. The comedy angle is going to be wild because Tim Heidecker is leading creative, and he actually spent several episodes trying to undermine himself as the target of replacement while losing control of his own show.

The real win is that $100k already raised through merch sales went straight to the Sandy Hook families — and Ben Collins promised it’s just "the first of many" payments from this deal, which means victims are literally getting their money back as part of the rebranding. They also brought Jim Haggerty back as a conspiracy-brained podcaster; he used to host Today Now! and starred in Porkin' Across America where — yes, I read that right — he eventually turns into a pig on screen. The whole project is supposed to replace fear-based content with "funny human stuff," which is probably the best thing anyone has done with this space in years.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/952264/the-onion-infowars-takeover-alex-jones-relaunch