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Judge Halts the Onion’s Infowars Takeover to Review Bankruptcy Auction Process
The Onion's winning bid for the assets of Alex Jones' bankrupt conspiracy-theory site Infowars is under further review.
At a bankruptcy court hearing Thursday afternoon in Houston, lawyers for Jones and the only other bidder in the Infowars auction — First United American Companies, which operates the ShopAlexJones.com website — complained about the secrecy of the process, in which bids were sealed. After the Onion was announced as the winning bidder Thursday, the Infowars website went dark — displaying a message that says “Site unavailable till further notice” — as the trustee began securing the assets of Free Speech Systems. Families of Sandy Hook victims sued Jones after he called the mass murder a “hoax” and falsely accused the parents of the children killed at the elementary school of colluding with the U.S. government in a supposed plot to restrict gun rights.
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