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Alex Jones asks judge to stop sale of Infowars website to The Onion
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Alex Jones asks judge to stop sale of Infowars website to The Onion

Jones called The Onion’s winning bid of $1.75 million “nonsense.”

OfAaron Katersky ABCNews logo

Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 1:53 p.m

The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars

Satirical website The Onion acquired InfoWars on Thursday.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused The Onion and Sandy Hook elementary school families of “collusive bidding” and asked a bankruptcy judge to stop the sale of its Infowars platform.

Jones, who has vilified the Sandy Hook families, calling the 2012 massacre a hoax, and the parents of the 20 first-graders, called The Onion’s winning bid of $1.75 million “bullshit” because it is half of what what the losing bidder offered.

The Onion began a “systematic effort to confuse Mr. Jones’ personal audience with pro-gun control messages in such a way that Mr. Jones’s personal public following is completely confused and misled,” Jones said in a overnight court case.

His request comes on the heels of a similar push for an injunction by First United American Companies, which is affiliated with Jones through the sale of dietary supplements.

Neither the plaintiffs nor the trustee immediately responded to Jones, but the trustee previously declared the auction result legitimate and sought court approval.

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