Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones' Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families
Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones' Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston said during a court hearing Tuesday that he will approve the auctions that start in November. But he said he first must change a previous order to make it clear that the trustee overseeing Jones’ personal bankruptcy case controls all the assets of Infowars parent company Free Speech Systems, which is owned 100% by Jones.
Despite the pending loss of his company, Jones vows to continue his talk shows through other means, possibly including a new website and his personal social media accounts. He also has suggested that Infowars’ assets could be bought by his supporters, allowing him to continue hosting his show as an employee under the Infowars brand in their home city of Austin, Texas.
I know you've all been missing him, but he needed a break to let all the spit leak out from all the tromboning of late.
lol he's just crisis acting
Do we even know that there is an Alex Jones and he's not just a government psyop?
I'm just asking questions.
Alex Jones is the real Paul McCartney, back for revenge!
How do you think he knew about the gay frogs? He is one.
Alex Jones is really Bill Hicks, who did not die and turned heel for the lolz. It's crazy but an actual conspiracy theory
I hope whoever gets the website keeps it exactly the same in looks and tone, and instead of contributing to misinformation actively correct misinformation online and post accurate stories. Keep the vibe and over-the-top voice tho.
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Whoever ends up with the site should sell it to TheOnion
The guys at Knowledge Fight have talked about buying it. Your suggestion seems like something they might do.
I think they'd be good stewards!
Info wars can be the space jam website of 30 years from now
"We're going to auction off this poison, so then other people will own that poison. The new owner will be the type of person very motivated to spend a significant amount of money on poison."
I get that the money is needed for restitution, but some things just need to be encased in concrete and blasted into the earth's core. They need to go get Disney's IP lawyers so that they can keep the brand alive forever, only to never be used again by anyone.
I'm kinda tempted to buy something for the lulz. I used to like Jones a long time ago, and the proceeds will go towards Sandy Hook victims anyways.
If I had the money I'd want to try staffing it with cult deprogramming specialists. It would be an interesting experiment to track.
Look i just need Dan and Jordan to get the desk and maybe that skull he had on the desk for a while. After that it can all burn but those guys deserve those things for all they do in putting together Knowledge Fight.
Why has this taken THIS LONG to get this far? Anybody else would have been rendered penniless within a year, tops.
Most people don't have multimillion dollars in assets with complex ownership schemes. But I also would challenge the assumption that it would ever go quickly. The legal system is very, very slow.
Lawyers can make time until the money runs out.
I don't think that's necessarily true.
Even very simple bancruptcy proceedings for smaller family business type companies take years.
Anybody else would have been rendered penniless within a year, tops.
Nobody else has ever been ordered to pay that much, much less in a suit for speech. Wrongful death lawsuits are awarded less than this.
I have a terrible feeling, that Elon Musk will buy it, then hire Alex Jones as its host, with the condition it needs to be exclusive to Xitter.
Well then they would actually get all the money they were awarded.
Musk wasting money to support fellow inhumane people is a given, if what you said happens the only delta with normalcy is the victims of alt-right trash finally will get compensated
Musk has been known to overpay for failing platforms
that's as good as dead. tucker carlson was the most influential host on fox news. went to twitter. he's literally irrelevant now. no one watches twitter, it's not a thing.
Wonder how cheaply it'll all go for.
I wonder who is going to buy it
He's depending on his fans to buy it and keep it all going for him.
TFA:
He also has suggested that Infowars’ assets could be bought by his supporters, allowing him to continue hosting his show as an employee under the Infowars brand in their home city of Austin, Texas.
“It’s very cut and dry that the assets of Free Speech Systems, the website, the equipment, the shopping cart, all that, can be sold,” Jones said on a recent show. “And they know full well that there are a bunch of patriot buyers, and then the operation can ease on.”
If the proceeds go to the sandy hook families, it would make sense to drive up the price as much as possible.
Probably why he's been sucking up to Elon so hard recently. Hoping Elon will buy it out then continue to let Alex spout his bullshit.
I hope the domain gets sold to someone who puts up a site dedicated to ridiculing all the losers who have been there.
Personally, I think redirecting to Knowledge Fights' site would be a good move; though I mostly hope it doesn't wind up under ownership of some other grifter.
Great episode of Knowledge Fight: incoming
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Alex Jones suffering arc is good for the soul. Take anything he has.
Good.
Very good.
Agreed. This guy's a PoS.
Hey look, consequences!
Still waiting for the orange one but I’m good with little victories.
Infowars is rebranding as Biddingwars
What’s taking so long? I have been hearing this exact same news for past 4 years now
Not sure how you did that, the judgment against Alex Jones was in 2022.
Then they had to decide whether Jones could work off his debt or whether he would be forced to sell off his company. The families offered to go with an annual payment, Jones started haggling over the amount, and this year the families said forget it and went with liquidation.
Finish him!
I would donate to kickstarter so the knowledge fight guys could buy it.
Info Wars with Dan and Jordan would be a hot summer fever dream come true
Me too... hopefully the lawyer too
The lawyer too
Oh No…. Anyways, how about them cowboys.
Let's Go!
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How’s this? Buy it, build voice and image models from the many hours of footage you now own, about a “persona” and then use that to spread mis-misinformation. Like an ai version of the Alex Jones character explaining that climate change is caused by humans, and other true things
PS: he argued somewhere along the way about the character he plays isn’t him, he doesn’t think that the sandy hook families are lying blah blah… I just play an evil bastard on tv