After a landmark defamation judgment and a two-year bankruptcy battle, satirical newspaper The Onion took control of Infowars, one of the internet’s most notorious disinformation brands, turning it against itself through satire.

At the centre of this extraordinary chapter is Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion and a former NBC News reporter who spent years investigating the conspiracy networks he now finds himself confronting from an entirely different vantage point.

Join Collins for a CJF J-Talk exploring what the Infowars saga reveals about today’s fractured media landscape. He’ll examine the role political satire can play in the news and information ecosystem, and why humour may be uniquely equipped to expose power, misinformation, AI-generated content and political absurdity in ways that complement and strengthen traditional journalism.