US Bankruptcy Judge Rejects Sale of Infowars to The Onion

The sale of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s ‘Infowars’ website to parody news platform ‘The Onion’ has been rejected by a US bankruptcy judge.

The BBC is reporting that after a two-day hearing, Judge Christopher Lopez ruled that an auction for ‘Infowars’ did not result in the best bids possible.

However, he rejected Jones’ claims that the auction was plagued by collusion.

‘The Onion’ said the bid was secured with the backing of families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, who won a US $1.5 billion defamation lawsuit against Jones for spreading false rumours about the massacre.

Judge Lopez said the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee who ran the auction made a good-faith error.

He said instead of quickly asking for final offers in the auction they should have encouraged more bidding between The Onion and a company affiliated with Mr Jones’ supplement-selling businesses.

Judge Lopez said this should have been opened back up, and it should have been opened back up for everybody.