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Real InfoWars Parody Surpasses Alex Jones Online

8/13/2026

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  • Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion, launched the parody site Real InfoWars, which now outpaces Alex Jones’s original site.
  • Real InfoWars has amassed 218,000 Instagram followers, 140,000 YouTube subscribers and 73,000 TikTok followers.
  • The parody sold $100,000 of merchandise, which the team plans to give to Sandy Hook families.
  • A 2022 jury ordered Alex Jones and InfoWars to pay $1.4 billion in damages to those families.