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‘We have to mock the site’s insanity’: comedian Tim Heidecker on the allure of becoming Infowars’ new boss

the Guardian·Matthew Cantor in Los Angeles·about 1 month ago
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Tim Heidecker on the Onion’s potential Infowars takeover: ‘I think for a little while it’s going to be fun to play with [Jones] and just keep reminding people of what an oaf he is.’ Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images If you’ve tuned in to Infowars over the years, you might have heard a very angry man screaming about the 2020 election being stolen for “ reanimated corpse ” Joe Biden, or chemicals in the water turning frogs gay , or the Sandy Hook school shooting, which killed 20 children and six staff members, being faked. Founded in 1999, Alex Jones’s Infowars has long been a platform for toxic conspiracy theories with real-life consequences, in addition to weird dietary supplements. But if the Onion has its way, the InfoWars of the future will have a very different impact. The satirical newspaper has been working for several years to take over the site, amid legal battles over Jones’s false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting.…

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