After a judge on Thursday ordered an evidentiary hearing on The onions winning bid to buy information warsAlex Jones' site resumed operations and stated that the sale had been blocked. But Onion CEO Ben Collins responded to this in an update posted on blue sky and x on Saturday, writing: “We left the hearing with clear next steps to complete the sale.” According to Collins, a hearing date has been set for a week from Monday, when the process is expected to conclude, and information wars He asked for permission to continue publishing in the meantime. “Bottom line: We won the auction and, you won't believe it, the former InfoWars people aren't taking it well,” Collins wrote.
“On Thursday, the person supervising the auction told us that the onionthe offer of InfoWarsalong with the families of Connecticut Sandy Hook, they won,” Collins wrote in the thread. “We haven't heard anything that has changed that, except, of course, from the guys who currently run InfoWars and do InfoWars stuff.” Unsurprisingly, Jones called the auction “rigged” and in a livestream on x said that lawyers for Elon Musk's social media site got involved and attended the hearing. <a target="_blank" data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1" class="link " href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/alex-jones-infowars-sale-onion-elon-musk-x/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:Mother Jones;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>Mother Jones reported.
the onion he only faced one other bidder at the auction for information wars: First United American Companies, which is associated with a website that sells Jones supplements. The company He reportedly bid $3.5 million.. The dollar amount of the Global Tetrahedron (the onionThe offer has not been disclosed, but has been endorsed by the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. By BloombergAdministrator Christopher Murray, who is liquidating Jones' estate, said these families have “agreed to forego their potential recovery and give it to all other unsecured creditors” Jones owes.
“There was a status conference with the judge overseeing the auction on Thursday, shortly after we were deemed the winner,” said Collins, who previously covered disinformation and online extremism as a reporter for NBC Newshe wrote in Saturday's thread. “The judge had some doubts about the process and some assets. We are pleased that it does so, as our offer with families is clearly the best and the transparency is even better.” And he added below: “We expected all this, obviously. Buying this site would always be fun later, but annoying right away. The fun part is yet to come.”
Collins' plan for information wars is “relaunching as the dumbest website on the Internet.” The nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety supposedly will be the only advertiser at launch.
