Tim Heidecker on His Plans for Infowars, and What He’s Going To Do With Alex Jones’ Stuff

The Onion announced a deal last week to take over the conspiracy-fueled website Infowars as part of founder Alex Jones’s long-running bankruptcy case, the result of a lawsuit filed by the families of Sandy Hook victims. The families of the victims of the 2012 elementary school massacre successfully sued Jones for damages exceeding $1.3 billion for spreading lies about the deadly incident, which prompted years of harassment from his followers. After a judge blocked its first attempt to buy Infowars at a bankruptcy auction in 2024, The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, announced its latest bid last week, adding that Tim Heidecker, a veteran of Adult Swim and the absurdist duo Tim and Eric, would take over as the site’s creative director.

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