BREAKING: Alex Jones’ Info Wars Has Been Bought At Silent Auction

Alex Jones is officially no longer in control of Info Wars.

The Onion, a left-leaning satirical publication, bought the Info Wars studio and its website in a judge-ordered silent bankruptcy auction.

In 2018, Jones was sued by Sandy Hook victim’s families in Connecticut Superior Court for claiming the Sandy Hook mass shooting that took the lives of 20 children and six educators was a hoax.

The Court later ruled Jones must pay $1.5 billion to the victim’s families.

The auction of Jones’ site comes as the court is liquidating Jones’ assets.

Listen to Alex Jones here:

🚨 #BREAKING: Alex Jones’ Infowars has been purchased by leftists at The Onion with the SOLE intention of shutting it down and SILENCING Jones

WE WILL NOT LET THEM WIN!

Make sure you’re following Alex’s new network @AJNlive

KEEP FIGHTING ALEX! pic.twitter.com/7xV08GtXEU

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 14, 2024

The Onion purchases InfoWars at auction, planning to turn it into a satire of its former self.

Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/PdDq1jSY9v

— AF Post (@AFpost) November 14, 2024

Per The New York Times:

The Onion, a satirical publication that skewers newsmakers and current events, said on Thursday that it had won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Infowars, a website founded and operated by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

The Onion said that the bid was sanctioned by the families of the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who in 2022 won a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit against Mr. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems.

Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit dedicated to ending gun violence that was founded in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, will advertise on a relaunched version of the site under The Onion.

Family members of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting, which claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators, sued Mr. Jones in Connecticut Superior Court in 2018 after he spread the baseless claim that the rampage was a fabricated pretext for confiscating Americans’ firearms.

The Onion declined to disclose the price it paid for Infowars and its assets, including its production studio and diet supplement business. Mr. Jones could not immediately be reached for comment, but he said on the social media platform X this week that he planned to continue producing his online program, “The Alex Jones Show,” until he was forced to stop.

NOW – Alex Jones announces that The Onion, a satirical news site, has purchased Infowars at auction.pic.twitter.com/8Novd3ajLQ

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 14, 2024

Per CNN:

Satirical news site The Onion won the auction to acquire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars.

The Onion’s bid was backed by the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and one first responder. It also will have an exclusive advertising deal with the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. CNN was first to report the humor web site had entered the bidding.

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The purchase gives The Onion Infowars’ intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and inventory, certain social media accounts and the production equipment used to put Jones on the air. The amount of the bid was not announced.

Jones is currently in his studio, awaiting authorities to tell him to leave:

BREAKING: Democrats Are On Their Way To The Building To Shut InfoWars Down Now– Alex Jones Explains The Future of InfoWars In This Critical Emergency Broadcast https://t.co/eBE30t4Gf6

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) November 14, 2024