The Editorial

The Onion announced on April 20, 2026, that it had reached a deal to operate InfoWars. The terms: $81,000 per month, paid to a court-appointed receiver. (For context: The Onion's original bankruptcy bid was $1.75 million total. A federal judge rejected it in December 2024, citing a flawed bidding process. The current arrangement is described as different. Whether the bidding process is also different has not been specified.)

Alex Jones founded InfoWars in 1999. He no longer controls it, having been found liable for $1.5 billion in damages after claiming the Sandy Hook school shooting was staged. Bankruptcy proceedings followed. The Onion then acquired the domain through a court-supervised auction. Alex Jones is not involved in the new editorial direction. He is also not, technically, involved in paying the $1.5 billion. These two facts are related.

Tim Heidecker, of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, is now the creative director of InfoWars. The new InfoWars will feature satirical content and parody of Alex Jones. It will operate at infowars.com, which is where InfoWars used to be.

This is the situation as it now stands: America's most prominent fake news satire publication has acquired America's most prominent fake news publication. The Onion has always known it was writing fiction and labeled it accordingly. InfoWars wrote similar content under a different label. Tim Heidecker — whose career has consisted of creating television that intentionally makes viewers uncertain whether what they are seeing is real — will now apply those skills to a platform that had the same effect, though that was reportedly not the goal.

Whether infowars.com's existing readership will notice any editorial change is an open empirical question. It is also, depending on how you define "empirical," a closed one.

The supplement line — which includes products called "Brain Force Plus" and "Ultimate Female Force," and I am not making those up — has not been addressed in any public statement. The Onion sells books and merchandise. InfoWars has historically sold supplements. Tim Heidecker's position on dietary supplementation is not publicly known.

The supplements remain available for purchase at infowars.com.