Alex Jones faces the possibility that his Infowars media platform could be sold to one of his many liberal enemies, while begging Elon Musk to save it.
Infowars is going up for auction to help pay off the more than $1 billion it owes relatives of Sandy Hook victims for claiming the 2012 tragedy was a hoax.
The auction of the media platform and all of its assets will begin in November, Judge Christopher Lopez said in Houston during a court hearing Tuesday, in a blow to Jones.
The auction has already attracted several haters of the broadcaster and conspiracy theorist, including Media Matters for America president Angelo Carusone.
The progressive site, which became famous thanks to the publication of many of Jones’s most famous rants, is exploring a bid not only for control of the site but also for any wild information that Infowars has not published in its archives.
Alex Jones faces the possibility that his Infowars media platform could be sold to one of his many liberal enemies, while begging Elon Musk to save it
Infowars is going up for auction to help pay off the more than $1 billion it owes relatives of Sandy Hook victims for claiming the 2012 tragedy was a hoax.
“We are diligently considering this acquisition,” Carusone said. Semafor. “As we saw with the Tucker tapes, the files could contain unreleased material that ends up having real news value, not gleeful misfortune, but really useful information.”
Jeff Rotkoff, who runs a liberal super PAC and recently founded a Texas-focused outlet called The Barbed Wire, says he wants to get in on the bidding, too.
“We started The Barbed Wire in part to disrupt the constant flow of conspiracies and misinformation from people like Alex Jones and Joe Rogan, and it would be a step toward justice to use the Infowars brand to undo some of the damage they’ve caused.” – said Rotkoff.
Brian Krassenstein, an anti-Trump social media journalist, has taken a tough approach to a potential bid.
‘I would like to announce that I will be a bidder for Infowars when it goes up for auction next month. “Once I win it, I will call it MissInfoWars and rehire Alex Jones, but I will have her dress up as “Alexa Jones” and tell fairy tales,” she wrote on social media.
He later said he would submit a bid, but he doesn’t think their budget will allow them to win.
He has also suggested that his followers could purchase Infowars’ assets, allowing him to continue hosting his show as an employee under the Infowars brand in his hometown of Austin, Texas.
“It’s very easy for the assets of Free Speech Systems, the website, the equipment, the shopping cart, all of that, to be sold,” Jones said on a recent show. “And they know very well that there is a group of patriotic buyers, and then the operation can be facilitated.”
The auction has already attracted several haters of the broadcaster and conspiracy theorist.
Jones asked Elon Musk to buy Infowars in recent days, writing: ‘Great idea! The last middle finger to the rotten globalist establishment.
One person who won’t make a bid is George Soros, an old Jones foe and focus of his many rants, who said he wasn’t interested.
Despite the pending loss of his company, Jones has vowed to continue his talk shows through other means, possibly including a new website and his personal social media accounts.
Jones has made millions of dollars over the years selling dietary supplements, clothing, survival equipment, books and other items that he promotes on his shows, which air on the Internet and on dozens of radio stations.
It is unclear how much money would be raised by selling Infowars and Jones’ assets, and how much money the Sandy Hook families would get.
Jones has about $9 million in personal assets, according to court documents. Free Speech Systems has about $6 million in cash on hand and about $1.2 million in inventory, according to previous court testimony.
During two civil trials in Texas and Connecticut, the parents and children of many of the victims testified that they were traumatized by Jones’ deceitful conspiracies and the actions of his followers.
They said they were harassed and threatened by Jones believers, some of whom confronted grieving families in person, saying the shooting never happened and their children never existed. A father said someone threatened to dig up his dead son’s grave.
Jones has asked Elon Musk to buy Infowars in recent days
Judge Lopez added Tuesday that he must first change an earlier order to make clear that the trustee overseeing Jones’ personal bankruptcy case controls all assets of Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, which is 100 percent owned by Jones.
Jones and his company filed for bankruptcy in 2022, the same year the Sandy Hook families won nearly $1.5 billion in defamation and emotional distress lawsuits against Jones for repeatedly calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a hoax organized by ‘crisis actors’ to get more Gun control legislation passed.
Jones is appealing the civil jury verdicts, citing free speech rights and questioning whether the families demonstrated any connection between their comments and the people who harassed and threatened the family members.
He has since acknowledged that the shooting occurred.
The Sandy Hook families who won the Connecticut lawsuit want Jones to lose his personal social media accounts.
Their lawyers further argue that the families should get a share of all of Jones’ future earnings to help pay off his more than $1 billion in debt.
The rest of Infowars’ assets, including computers, video cameras and other studio equipment, would be sold in a separate auction on December 10.
A pending legal dispute in the bankruptcy case is whether Free Speech Systems owes more than $50 million to another company owned by Jones, PQPR Holdings Limited.
One person who won’t make a bid is George Soros, an old Jones foe and focus of his many rants, who said he wasn’t interested.
Free Speech Systems purchases dietary supplements from PQPR to sell on the Infowars website. PQPR said it was not paid many of the supplements and filed liens.
Sandy Hook’s attorneys allege the debt is false.
If the debt is found to be valid, that could reduce any amount Sandy Hook families ultimately get from the settlements.
