The Onion Takes Over InfoWars, Launches Satirical Makeover With Jim Haggerty
TL;DR
Rolling Stone reports The Onion is acquiring InfoWars and rebooting it as a satire-focused platform, led by Jim Haggerty with Tim Heidecker as creative director; the move mocks Jones and the conspiracy ecosystem, following Jones’s defamation losses and bankruptcy, with final judicial approval still pending.
- Red-Pilled Morning-Show Host Stars in First Clip From The Onion’s InfoWars Takeover Rolling Stone
- The Onion has agreed to a new deal to take over Infowars NPR
- ‘There’s just a gigantic amount of people that need to be made fun of’: The Onion CEO is excited to take over Infowars The Boston Globe
- The Onion launches new effort to turn Infowars into parody website BBC
- Satire website The Onion launches new bid to take over Alex Jones’ Infowars Politico
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