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.…