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.
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 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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
Wonder how cheaply it’ll all go for.
Alex Jones suffering arc is good for the soul. Take anything he has.
Great episode of Knowledge Fight: incoming
Hey look, consequences!
Still waiting for the orange one but I’m good with little victories.
Good.
Very good.
I would donate to kickstarter so the knowledge fight guys could buy it.
Me too… hopefully the lawyer too
Info Wars with Dan and Jordan would be a hot summer fever dream come true
The lawyer too
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
Let’s Go!
Oh No…. Anyways, how about them cowboys.
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