Thursday after a judge scheduled an evidentiary hearing Onion’the winning bid to purchase InfowarsThe Alex Jones site has since resumed operations and claimed that the sale was blocked. But onions CEO Ben Collins countered this in a released update Bluesky and X on Saturday, writing, “We left court with clear next steps to complete the sale.” According to Collins, the court date has been set for a week from Monday, when the process is expected to end, and Infowars in the meantime, he asked for permission to continue publishing. “The long and the short of it: We won the auction and — you won’t believe it — the former InfoWars folks are not taking it well,” Collins wrote.
“The auction supervisor told us this on Thursday Onionoffer for InfoWarsConnecticut won with the families of Sandy Hook,” Collins wrote in the post. “We haven’t heard anything to change that — except, of course, from the guys who now run InfoWars and do InfoWars stuff.” Jones surprisingly called the auction a “sham” and In a live broadcast on X, Elon Musk’s social media site said lawyers were involved and attended the hearing. Mother Jones informed.
Onion was against only one other bidder in the auction Infowars: The first United States companies to be associated with a website selling Jones’ supplements. Company It is reported that he offered 3.5 million dollars. The dollar amount of the Global Tetrahedron (Onion‘s parent company) the offer is not disclosed, but is supported by the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. Per BloombergChristopher Murray, the trustee liquidating Jones’ estate, said the families had “agreed to forgo any potential recovery” Jones owed and give it to all other unsecured creditors.
Collins, who previously covered disinformation and online extremism as a reporter, said, “On Thursday, shortly after the winner was declared, there was a status conference with the judge overseeing the auction.” NBC Newswrote in the thread on Saturday. “The judge had some questions about the process and some assets. We’re glad he did, because our offering with families is the best, and the transparency is even better.” He later added: “We were expecting all this. Buying this site will always be fun later, but immediately annoying. The fun part is yet to come.”
Collins’ plan Infowars It’s for “relaunching as the dumbest website on the Internet.” The non-profit Everytown for Gun Safety will is reported to be the only advertiser at the start.
