The Onion launched a weekly Infowars parody livestream titled "Infowars" on Thursday at 8 pm ET. The show is available on Twitch, YouTube, and Instagram under the handle @realinfowars and features satire of Alex Jones and conspiracy culture.

The Onion plans to donate $100,000 from merchandise sales to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Alex Jones was ordered by courts to pay more than $1 billion for falsely calling the shooting a hoax, though the families have not received these funds.

Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion, stated, "Legally, we have to say this is a direct parody of Alex Jones and all this bullshit, until we're allowed to take over all his stuff." Collins said the premiere episode features video purporting to show Jones exploding from eating too much Whataburger. Jeff Lawson, owner of The Onion's parent company Global Tetrahedron, said, "may not be a surprise to say we kill off Alex Jones pretty quickly."

The Onion won a bankruptcy auction for Infowars assets in late 2024, but a federal judge invalidated the initial win due to a technicality in the bidding process. The Onion announced a second deal to acquire Infowars assets in April, though a Texas appeals court paused the sale after Jones filed an appeal. Collins said, "One day we will get Infowars.com, and we'll get access to that awesome studio."

Lawson said, "But the problem is the internet is so hard to satirize because there is no one internet." He added, "It's these podcasters, they're the thing you can satirize, the Joe Rogans and the Alex Joneses." Collins said the parody allows the outlet to "break down how fucking stupid everything is and how people talk now." He also stated, "People are just constantly trying to find the big secret thing that is running the world, but in reality, the big secret thing that's running the world is right fucking in front of us, it's the big grafty fucking asshole government that we live under the thumb of."

The premiere episode, titled "Emergency," includes appearances by Tim Robinson as "Tim from Ohio" and Brad Holbrook as fictional newscaster Jim Haggerty. Nick Lutsko composed the opening theme. The content includes satire of conspiracy theories, dubious scientific claims, and sales pitches for supplements and survival gear, including a fictional "pro oxygen" supplement pill the host claims can replace breathing, and a penis flattening device.

Collins described the cast as an "'Avengers, assemble' sort of thing for everybody who's been making fun of these assholes for years." He said, "I do think if [this cast] had been direct foils all along to Trumpism that we probably wouldn't have Trumpism." Lawson stated, "I do worry about democracy, and I think that satire is the answer to that, being able to point out the things that we look around and say, 'This isn't right.'" Collins noted that The Onion produced a 20-minute mockumentary titled "Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile" last year, saying, "That's kind of how we knew that we should be doing this more, because everyone went wild." He added, "In part, by making fun of this thing, we keep the value of it up," but said, "We don't want that to happen, because these families have gotten nothing, and we want to give them money." Collins also said of Jones, "He needs the clout, baby," and warned, "Don't give comedy writers a grudge for 18 months."

Chris Mattei, an attorney for nine of the Sandy Hook families, stated, "All he's been left with is an iPhone and a fancy microphone." Mattei said, "Every dime Alex Jones makes from here until the end of eternity is going to be claimed by the families." Jones has moved his show to a different website. Mattei said, "The idea that it could be turned to some social good. I think it's even better." He added, "So, yeah, I think the families are both pleased and amused with what they've been able to achieve here."