The new CEO of ‘The Onion’ is bringing back ‘the good internet.’ Here’s how

Ben Collins, a former political disinformation reporter at NBC News, is working to make satire great again.

As a political disinformation reporter at NBC News, Ben Collins spent the past six years investigating extremism and online conspiracies. He probed the darkest abysses of the internet to uncover QAnon theories, militia plots, and sometimes a disturbing manifesto posted “on the worst website you’ve ever seen in your life.” It was, he says, “gruesome.”