The Onion's new parody of Alex Jones' Infowars starts with $100,000 to Sandy Hook families

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Source: NBC News/AP

July 2, 2026, 3:41 AM EDT


The satirical news site The Onion isn’t waiting to take possession of Infowars to launch a parody of Alex Jones ’ conspiracy platform. More than a year after first trying to buy Infowars, The Onion on Thursday will debut a send-up under its own website with plans to give some of the revenue to families of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

The families have still received no money from Jones since courts ordered him to pay more than $1 billion for falsely calling the 2012 shooting a hoax. The Onion will start by sending the families $100,000 from merchandise sales that combine the conspiracy empire’s brand with the The Onion’s logo in rainbow colors, according to CEO Ben Collins, whose company is still in court trying to take control of Infowars.

“Don’t give comedy writers a grudge for 18 months,” Collins said.

The parody will include a series of shows and other content under Infowars branding that spoof Jones’ aggressive mashup of conspiracies linking major news events, dubious scientific claims, attacks on people suffering in tragedies and sales of supplements and survival gear.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-parody-alex-jones-infowars-100k-sandy-hook-families-rcna352688

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1. I may get one of the new tea shirts or hats

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2. I like the Onion's Infowars logo in rainbow colors.

That must turn Alex's face a brilliant shade of red.

Come on Aneurism!

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3. This says Jones!

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4. ALEX JONES IS A VILE HUMAN BEING

It took him two years to admit that the Sandy Hook massacre wasn't a hoax when he realized that for it to be a hoax all of the families of the named victims would have to be in on it, and some of them were verbally attacked by the drones who listened to Jones conspiracy theories (not a single one of which he ever proved).