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.
Alex Jones suffering arc is good for the soul. Take anything he has.
I would donate to kickstarter so the knowledge fight guys could buy it.
Info Wars with Dan and Jordan would be a hot summer fever dream come true
The lawyer too
Me too… hopefully the lawyer too
Oh No…. Anyways, how about them cowboys.
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
Why has this taken THIS LONG to get this far? Anybody else would have been rendered penniless within a year, tops.
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.
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.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true.
Even very simple bancruptcy proceedings for smaller family business type companies take years.
“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.
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.
If I had the money I’d want to try staffing it with cult deprogramming specialists. It would be an interesting experiment to track.
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.
What caused you to wake up?
Ironically it was his scene in Waking Life that put him on my radar. I think he has literally gone insane.
He was pretty insane back then too. He just didn’t have years of alcoholism to back up that insanity.
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.
Musk has been known to overpay for failing platforms
Musk wasting money to support fellow inhumane people is a given, if what you said happens the only delta with normalcy is the victims of alt-right trash finally will get compensated
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.
Well then they would actually get all the money they were awarded.
Let’s Go!
What’s taking so long? I have been hearing this exact same news for past 4 years now
Not sure how you did that, the judgment against Alex Jones was in 2022.
Then they had to decide whether Jones could work off his debt or whether he would be forced to sell off his company. The families offered to go with an annual payment, Jones started haggling over the amount, and this year the families said forget it and went with liquidation.
Hey look, consequences!
Still waiting for the orange one but I’m good with little victories.
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Infowars is rebranding as Biddingwars
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.
What are they doing now for new content? This is like QAnon imploding and the QAA podcast having to branch out into the wider world of right-wing conspiracy fantasies.
You think AJ is gone? He’s NEVER gone!
Finish him!
Great episode of Knowledge Fight: incoming
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