InfoWars, also branded as Real InfoWars, is a comedy and media platform run and owned by American satirical news outlet The Onion which debuted in July 2026. It is a parodic reboot of the original fake news and conspiracy website Infowars created and managed by Alex Jones from 1999 until 2026. The Onions InfoWars began broadcasting live on YouTube on July 2, 2026, featuring two programs: The Jim Haggerty Show and Emergency with Tim Heidecker.
History Pre-debut (2022–2026) Courts had ordered Jones to pay approximately $1.4 billion in damages to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting after he lost a defamation lawsuit. During Jones' bankruptcy proceedings, Infowars was initially licensed to The Onion in a deal with the court-appointed manager of the property. Although a Texas appeals court officially paused the acquisition following an appeal by Jones, The Onion pressed ahead with the production of its parody programming with comedian Tim Heidecker as creative director.
The Onions plan of turning Infowars into a parody site Speaking in an interview with Time, Tim Heidecker claimed that he initially plans to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, portraying it as a conspiracy media network that mainly feeds on the audience's rage and fear, like Jones did during his management and ownership of it, stating:
According to Brad Holbrook, who portrays Jim Haggerty, The Onion's head of video, Ryan Natoli, envisioned Haggerty as a disgraced television host running an archetypal populist independent show. Holbrook stated in an interview with AV Club:
The Onion raised funds through merchandise sales of the rebranded rainbow gradient Infowars logo sporting The Onions logo in place of the letter "O" and, after relaunching the site, donated $100,000 to the Sandy Hook families, who had not yet received any court-ordered payment from Jones. The Onions InfoWars began broadcasting live on YouTube on July 2, 2026, 20:00 EDT, featuring the two programs The Jim Haggerty Show and Emergency with Tim Heidecker.
Debut and shows (2026–present) In the first episode of Emergency, Heidecker claimed that Jones died and was replaced with an impostor, presented in the show as fact with a video of him suddenly "popping like a balloon" inside his car. Heidecker had done so as a method of "wish fulfillment" for victims and to attract Jones' attention with a deliberately false, nonsensical death claim. Heidecker does not plan to make Jones the sole focus of Emergency, intending to eventually pivot its format into a platform for new comedians and pay the Sandy Hook families the money he claims "Jones will never pay", and the show's focus into his life "falling apart".
Throughout the streams, The Onion has begun selling merchandise related to both variants of InfoWars, such as "Demon Guard" bandages that promise to protect the wearer from demonic influence, and plushies and stickers of gay frogs, referencing Jones' previous claims of atrazine turning them homosexual.
Overview "InfoWars Summer" (July 2, 2026 – September 10, 2026) A weekly InfoWars stream consists of an intro related to "The InfoWars Elf", the show's proposed mascot, which was rejected by The Onions parent company; Global Tetrahedron, in the show's metafictional narrative, followed by an episode of The Jim Haggerty Show and one of Emergency; with short satirical product infomercials, vertical video skits, and membership subscription ads for The Onion between them; airing on YouTube each Thursday at 20:00 EDT.
"InfoWars Fall" (September 10, 2026 – present) A weekly InfoWars stream airs on YouTube each Thursday at 19:00 CST. The satiric product infomercials from the debut season, both for the fictional products and the real products released by The Onion; continue in the form of short-form on-demand video content. These infomercials are typically hosted by actor Troy Dillinger.
Shows Just as Jones' original Infowars acts like an online media network/television channel with a programming schedule, the reboot InfoWars has multiple shows aired each week per episode. Separate on-demand episodes of each show and edited VOD versions of the broadcasts may also be uploaded on the YouTube channel between each stream.
Debuted in July 2026 The Jim Haggerty Show A parodic conspiratorial right-wing video podcast series starring Jim Haggerty, a fictional former morning news show host turned podcaster who used to host Onion News Networks satirical Today Now! segments and previously starred in the web series Porkin' Across America; claiming to speak about governmental misdeeds despite the danger allegedly inherent to the act. Each week, he hosts a guest where he talks about a singular topic for the entirety of the episode, such as CIA cover-ups or Christianity, but rapidly jumps between subtopics between them, often followed by asking the guest about the possibility of being made into a martyr for his claims and stances without actually dying. Emergency with Tim Heidecker (shortened to Emergency): The first main show hosted on InfoWars where the host, Tim Heidecker, talked about events in the fashion of Alex Jones with the same rapid-fire, conspiratorial style, often stuttering and screaming over his guests and callers. With Heidecker's death within the show's fiction, the show gained a new and final host, Phil Braun, on its last episode.
Debuted in September 2026 Week of Miracles: The first special presentation episode of InfoWars about televangelists performing miracles on stage, presented by Vic Berger and Ben Craw. Alpha Child System: The second special presentation episode of InfoWars where the schoolchildren are trained to become a stereotypical alpha male, presented by Jay Weingarten with the first major speaking role of The InfoWars Elf since his debut. The Tim Heidecker Podcast: The third special presentation episode of InfoWars where Heidecker returns back to host a video podcast.
Episodes The Jim Haggerty Show +On-demand titleLivestream titleEpisode numberRelease date+EXPOSING CIA SECRETS: Jeffrey Epstein, JFK, and September 9/11Alex Jones Is Dead - Real InfoWars Stream1July 2, 2026Haggerty consults ex-CIA analyst Neil Riker (Phil Braun) regarding various CIA cover-ups. Jeffrey Epstein's operations are alleged to reach "all the way to the almost top", permeating multiple layers of the government but excluding the president. John F. Kennedy is alleged to have been assassinated and that his suicide note was just a forgery. Riker also reveals that there is footage proving that multiple hijacked aircraft destroyed the World Trade Center on 9/11.This Is Why Big Pharma Is TERRIFIED Of Fish MilkInfoWars Summer - Live Stream 7/9/262July 9, 2026 (livestream) July 10, 2026 (on-demand episode)Haggerty consults "medical patriot" Mr. Docter Eastbrook about elites having poisoned public water to prevent fish from producing milk and hoarded unpoisoned fish and their milk for themselves. Eastbrook claims that their milk could cure multiple diseases and double consumers' IQs.TRADWIFE Explains What Happened to Good Christian Conservative MenInfoWars Demon Hunting - Livestream 7/16/263July 16, 2026Haggerty consults "tradwife" Callie McClean about the traditional American family life: homeschooling children, daily homeschool shooting drills, prohibiting them from going in bathrooms, replacing toilet water with breast milk, and spending 18 hours per day inside a small metal crate.IS GOD REAL? Unlocking The Bible's Hidden TruthsInfoWars Alex Jones Bombshell - Live Stream 7/23/264July 23, 2026Haggerty consults biblical expert Robin Thacker about matters related to the Bible's content, such as the amount of commandments in it, whether or not God is real, and the possibility of Jesus becoming addicted to pornography in his second coming. Haggerty plans on "watching up" all the pornography in the world to prevent that.CONSERVATIVE HERO Is FIGHTING For The 2nd AmendmentInfoWars Super Malaria Emergency - Live Stream 7/30/265July 30, 2026Haggerty consults eight year-old Lucas Reilly about an incident in which he accidentally killed his parents with a gun in their closet, had the gun confiscated by police, and was taken to live with his grandmother. Despite Reilly's trauma and desire to go home, Haggerty paints him as a heroic Republican figure and has him read an ad.HORRORS OF WAR: Former Navy Seal Reveals How Badass They AreInfoWars Hell - Live Stream 8/6/266August 6, 2026Haggerty consults alleged Sergeant Steve Michaels about his killing of Osama bin Laden, where he previously killed multiple unrelated people across 40 missions, including multiple men, women, elderly people, and children, believing all of them to have been Bin Laden. When he finally killed Bin Laden, Michaels found thousands of Chuck E. Cheese tokens in his possession. Michaels is kept up at night wondering which prize Bin Laden would have claimed if they had not stopped him. Michaels continues to get revenge for 9/11 by watching Bin Laden's secret stash of pornography every morning in its entirety.KILLING DEATH: The Anti-Aging Method That Biohacked MortalityInfoWars Mourns - Live Stream 8/13/267August 13, 2026Haggerty consults "Project Everlife" founder Bear Smithsonian, who wants to grant people immortality via drugs, electronic devices, body part swapping, and resurrection so he can be young and wealthy forever. Part of the regimen is replacing sleep with intermittent dying four to five times per day: he takes a pill that kills him, and when his watch chimes (and not a moment sooner) his spotter injects him with a large syringe of the antidote. Smithsonian demonstrates the pill during the interview and dies. When his watch starts beeping about 45 minutes later, Haggerty administers the injection. Not knowing where to inject it, he jams the syringe into the base of the skull. Haggerty is too flustered to inject the entire dose and leaves the syringe in his head. Then the watch starts chiming and Haggerty realizes that he has bungled the procedure.MAKING A MARTYR: The Interview With My AI AssassinInfoWars Rebooted - Live Stream 8/20/268 (Season 1 finale)August 20, 2026Haggerty consults a chatbot he claims accurately depicts an image of his would-be killer, and uses it to predict how he would be killed and how the world would grieve his martyrdom. The chatbot is unhelpful, constantly malfunctions, its image and identity are constantly changing between exaggerated depictions of leftists (culminating into a caricature of Bin Laden), and it hallucinates everything but its threat to visit his podcast's address and kill him. It then turns into an imitation of Haggerty's past iteration in Today Now!, where it mocks his past as a mouthpiece and pig and predicts that no one will be bothered by his absence. The chatbot's Bin Laden-like depiction cuts the fake Haggerty's throat and the real Haggerty grazes himself with a bullet ricochet in a state of AI psychosis.
Emergency with Tim Heidecker