Posted on 11/14/2024 8:35:06 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday.
"The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the 2012 shooting in Connecticut, said in a statement provided by his lawyers.
The sale price was not immediately disclosed.
Jones confirmed The Onion's acquisition of Infowars in a social media video Thursday and said he planned to file legal challenges to stop it. An email message seeking comment was sent to Infowars.
It was not immediately clear what The Onion planned to do with the conspiracy theory platform, including its website, social media accounts, studio in Austin, Texas, trademarks and video archive. The Chicago-based Onion did not immediately return emails seeking comment Thursday.
Sealed bids for the private auction were opened Wednesday. Both supporters and detractors of Jones had expressed interest in buying Infowars. The other bidders have not been disclosed.
The Onion, a satirical site that manages to persuade people to believe the absurd, bills itself as “the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events” and says it has 4.3 trillion daily readers.
Jones has been saying on his show that if his detractors bought Infowars, he would move his daily broadcasts and product sales to a new studio, websites and social media accounts that he has already set up. He also said that if his supporters won the bidding, he could stay on the Infowars platforms.
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Infowars without Jones is like project veritas without O’Keefe.
Infowars without Jones is like project veritas without O’Keefe.
Like a foot without a big toe.
I didn’t follow this story at all......did he REALLY say that There Was NO CHIDREN KILLED AT SANDY HOOK SCHOOL??<P.If he did say that....WHY WOULD HE SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
or drudge without Drudge....ok maybe bad example :)
The Captain of the toes!
And if he DID say that, how is that defamation? I'm not a lawyer, but I don't understand how saying something like that is defamation. And I especially don't understand how someone could be ordered to pay $1 billion dollars to the "victims" for it.
*shrug* I don’t know what was said. I only know to question everything. I saw Sandy Hook on the news 2 days before it happened.
Don’t know what people think of AJ but if the government can shut anyone down for what is deemed as alleged wrong think then look out.
Can you elaborate on that? In what context did you see Sandy Hook on the news 2 days before the shootings?
Alex Jones: “I wasn’t serious. It was just a joke”
No he didn’t. The proof is that nobody can find the video of him saying that. If it existed, it would be playing on a continuous loop.
He had on a guest who said such things. He openly questioned some very odd things about it, such as the “dad” laughing as he stepped up to discuss the death of his son a couple of hours before, etc.
But he never said “no children died”.
Just ask yourself. Where is the video?
It’s the same people who say we didn’t see the planes hit the World Trade Center. It’s a type of Flat Earth thing. Arguing for the sake of arguing.
... because of robbie Parker.
Look at the videos. I moved from newtown 2 weeks prior to the event, my family is first response and I know every inch of that town.
I believe, totally, that it was partially faked.
Yes, kids died. But not the number they said.
They are the Leftist version of The Bee.
Because he said all the parents whose children died you see on TV were paid actors.
It’s just contradiction.
SO the families are spending there own money to pay the judgment for them selves? :rolleyes:
Who is Robbie Parker?
https://www.businessinsider.com/who-were-the-victims-of-the-sandy-hook-shooting-2017-12
Which one of these didn’t die?
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