NEW YORK, July 3 -- For nearly fifteen years, the families of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary endured Alex Jones calling their grief a performance and his audience calling them liars. On Thursday evening, they began collecting rent from his studio.

The Onion, the satirical news outlet that won a two-year legal battle to acquire InfoWars after Jones was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in defamation damages to Sandy Hook families, launched its first broadcast from the platform on July 2 with comedian Tim Heidecker channeling Jones in a 50-minute live show built on the Adult Swim aesthetic Jones unwittingly spent years perfecting. Every dollar from merchandise sold through the channel goes directly to the families Jones spent years cla...