On Thursday, Alex Jones’ site resumed operations after a judge ordered an evidentiary hearing into Onion’s successful bid to buy Infowars, claiming the sale was blocked. However, Onion CEO Ben Collins disputed this in an update published in Blue Sky and The meeting has ended,” he wrote. Collins said a court date was set for less than a week from Monday, when proceedings are expected to be completed, and Infowars had asked for permission to continue publishing in the meantime. “Simply put, we won the auction, and believe it or not, the old InfoWars people didn’t like it,” Collins wrote.
“On Thursday, the person overseeing the auction told us that the Onion and the Sandy Hook family of Connecticut had bid on Infowars and won,” Collins wrote in the thread. “I haven’t heard anything that would change that, except, of course, from the people who currently run InfoWars and work for InfoWars,” Jones said. “It’s a fraud,” he said on an X livestream that lawyers for Elon Musk’s social media site were involved and attended the hearing, Mother Jones reported.
Onion competed against only one other bidder in the Infowars: First United American Companies auction, which is related to a website selling Jones’ supplements. The company reportedly bid $3.5 million. The bid made by Global Tetrahedron (The Onion’s parent company) has not been disclosed, but it is supported by the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims. According to Bloomberg, Christopher Murray, the trustee who is liquidating Jones’ estate, said these families “waive any possibility of recovery” owed by Jones and all other unsecured creditors owe him money. I agreed to give it.”
“We had a status conference with the judge overseeing the auction on Thursday, right after we were declared the winner,” said Collins, who previously covered disinformation and online extremism as a reporter for NBC News. wrote in the thread on Saturday. “The judge asked some questions about the process and some of the assets. I’m glad he did because our bid with the family is clearly the best and the transparency is even better.” ” He added: Purchasing this site is sure to be fun later on, but quickly becomes a hassle. The fun part is yet to come. ”
Collins’ plan for Infowars is to “relaunch it as the dumbest website on the internet.” The nonprofit organization Everytown for Gun Safety will reportedly be the sole advertiser at launch.
