Tim Heidecker on His Plans for Infowars, and What He’s Going To Do With Alex Jones’ Stuff
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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.
“You can’t just shut something like this down and pretend it never existed,” Onion CEO Ben Collins said in a statement. “If you want accountability to mean anything, you have to replace it with something better, and that’s what we’re trying to do here.”
A court-appointed receiver controlling Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, is seeking approval for the deal in a Texas state court. The deal would see The Onion licensing the company’s intellectual property, including the Infowars trademark and associated domains, for $81,000 a month.
The satirical media company hopes to turn Infowars into a parody of its former self, while sharing profits with the families of the Sandy Hook victims.
TIME spoke with Heidecker about his plans for the site and how he intends to deal with an angry Jones.
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