Another legal complication may have surfaced in The Onion’s bid to buy the Infowars empire from bankrupt and scheming media mogul Alex Jones. X filed a limited challenge in federal bankruptcy court on Monday to Infowars’ transfer of the X account to the satirical media empire.
The challenge alleges that, according to court records, Company X’s terms and conditions state that “Trustee may not sell, assign, or otherwise transfer such license without Company X’s consent.” There is.
X Corporation cites its Terms of Service (TOS) agreement in its objection. The TOS states that the Account may not be assigned, gifted, sold, or otherwise transferred to any other party “without X’s express written consent.”
According to Company X’s court filing, “Because the X Account is managed by the TOS, the TOS makes clear that the X Account is the ‘exclusive property’ of Company X.”
Mr. Jones’ assets, including the Infowars website, were put up for liquidation auction earlier this month to collect about $1.5 billion in damages he owed in a civil suit brought by the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. It was done. Jones was found responsible for spreading rumors to the victims’ families that the Sandy Hook shootings were staged as a false flag attack.
The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, released a statement on the Infowars site after receiving permission from Jones’ family to accept a lower bid and forgo a portion of the sale to pay other creditors. intervened in the acquisition. Onion CEO Ben Collins announced the deal and the paper’s plans to turn Infowars.com into a “very funny, very stupid website” on its Blue Sky account.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Christopher Lopez halted the transaction pending an evidentiary hearing to review the auction process. Auction trustee Christopher Murray told the court that while Global Tetrahedron’s bid was not the highest offered, the sale price included a legal clause that cited the family’s contract. Ta. The Associated Press reported Monday that Lopez will hear arguments on the trustee’s sale of Infowars to Onion on Dec. 9 or 17 to ensure a “fair and transparent process.”
