The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact.
It's magnificent.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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I'm a bit worried this will turn into qAnon ×10 but just as many people will think it's dead serious.
Yes but it will be actually funny this time.
Birds aren’t really set as good an example as I’ve seen and it still got out of hand.
I still can imagine the Pastafarians eventually losing the parody and having fundamentalists someday too.
Will it be funny?
Some of what any fundamentalists do will always be funny, but usually only to outsiders
Yeah but mostly funny.
Aw man, Learn to Float is already sold out!
Damn! I wanted to learn the ancient secrets of floating!!
It's easy, you just fall but right before you hit the ground, you distract yourself and... miss.
Covered slightly more seriously by the NYT and probably others: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html
You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot.
Dammit, foiled agian1
I kind of regret that there's no /r/TotallyNotRobots analog on the Threadiverse, but I suppose that there might not be enough people who want to do casual creative writing to keep it active. !writingprompts@literature.cafe seems to be getting limited traffic.
81k a month?
Fucking hell Im in the wrong field if a stack of yelly bullshit lies is worth that.
What would be the point of that?
Best. News. And Tim Heidecker at the creative helm too!! It’s gonna be so wack!!
Cant wait to put rainbow infowars stickers on all the stop signs with the old stickers on them, nothing like a little maintenance and upkeep
Don't forget to make some Ukrainian and Palestinian versions.
I've seen this headline five times during the whole process. I'll believe it when it happens.
The fact that this headline came without 500 propaganda articles coming to Jones defense leads me to believe that he's burned all his bridges and nobody is there to rescue him this time.
Infowars.com has a big banner up proclaiming: “The Onion Lies To Internet Again, Falsely Claims Control Over Infowars”
I’ll join in the fist-pumping when that’s gone.
Fucking YESSSSSSZZZZZZZ!!! Now we can all claim Info Wars as our god and savior.
Edit: I hope it goes through.
The licensing deal has been agreed to by The Onion and the court-appointed administrator. But it is not effective until Judge Guerra Gamble approves it, and Mr. Jones could appeal any ruling. That means the fate of Infowars remains in limbo until the court rules, probably sometime in the next two weeks. Mr. Jones continues to operate Infowars.com and host its weekday program, “The Alex Jones Show.”
The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially planned to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.”
What if......they hired Alex Jones, to play a character named Jones Alex, who does his whole show naked, except for a bowtie?
All the other stuff Tim had planned for the new show, Jones Alex can say. Same show, just evrn more absurd
It's unfortunate that it's not final yet, but this is still awesome
Ended, the info wars have.
Can't wait for the next Knowledge Fight episode to drop!
It's kind of amazing how this is all coming together at the same time for Alex: getting his life's "work" bought out from under him while Trump cuts him out of the alt-rot movement altogether. I'm curious how it's all going to go.
They’re going to be so happy.
Last I heard, Onion CEO Ben Collins was dating Kat Abughazaleh.
No no no. What you heard was "They're sleeping together" and that's only because they both have narcolepsy.
Tim Heidecker in charge? Awesome!
Congratulations, The Onion!!!
Before reading the article, I was going to say make it the same but with different tone. Same lies same everything as to show people it remains the same except for the tone. But nah, this new vision sounds interesting.
This is pretty cool.
Now, is there any way they can hand the day-to-day operations off to Julian Assange?