
OAN Staff James Meyers
7:49 AM – Thursday, November 14, 2024
UPDATE: November 14 – 5:09 P.M. PST- According to Alex Jones, a judge has blocked the sale of InfoWars, slamming how the auction was conducted. During an emergency hearing that went on for several hours, federal Judge Chris Lopez maintained that it was not a legitimate auction. Jones also asserts that it was a “rigged, fake auction” in his newly released X video.
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding war for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes over $1 billion in defamation judgements for suggesting that the massacre was a hoax, the families announced Thursday.
“The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the 2012 shooting in Connecticut, said in a statement provided by his lawyers.
The sale price was not immediately announced.
Jones confirmed the acquisition by The Onion in a social media video on Thursday. However, he said that he plans to file legal challenges to put a stop to it.
“Last broadcast now live from Infowars studios. They are in the building. Are ordering shutdown without court approval,” Jones said on the social platform X.
Jones was broadcasting live from the Infowars studio on Thursday morning and he suddenly expressed shock, putting his head in his hand at his desk.
Currently, it’s unclear what The Onion plans to do with its platform, including its website, social media accounts, the Austin, Texas, studio, trademarks, and video archive.
Sealed bids for the platform were opened on Wednesday during a private auction. Meanwhile, Jones supporters and opposition showed interest in buying Infowars. The other bidders have yet to be revealed.
The Onion, which is known as a satirical site that essentially pokes fun at the news, calls itself “the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events” and says it has 4.3 trillion daily readers.
Jones has been saying on his show that if his detractors bought Infowars, he would move his daily broadcasts and product sales to a new studio. However, if his supporters won the bidding, he said he could stay on the Infowars platform.
In a statement on the social media site BlueSky, The Onion CEO Ben Collins said his company already has plans for Infowars.
“We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can’t wait to show you what we have cooked up,” he wrote.
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