A court-supervised auction concluded on Wednesday. The Connecticut families said they agreed to forgo some payment from the defamation judgments to boost the Onion’s bid and prevent other right-wing content creators from continuing to broadcast conspiracy theories on Infowars.

“The world needs to see that having a platform does not mean you are above accountability,” said Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting. “The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for.”

The second-highest bid was submitted by First United American Companies, which is associated with Jones, according to court documents.

“They’re shutting us down,” Jones said on social media site X. “I’m going to be here until they come in here and turn the lights off.”

First United American Companies, which bid $3.5 million in cash for Infowars, objected to the way the auction was handled, saying it wasn’t given an opportunity to beat the Onion’s winning bid.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/parody-website-onion-buys-alex-jones-infowars-out-bankruptcy-court-documents-2024-11-14/

The Sandy Hook families wanted The Onion to have the website so that right wing news companies could not buy it. Maybe it’s more important to the Sandy Hook families that there are less victims of right wing extremists than the money that they spent. It’s not likely that The Onion is going to retain Infowars customers as The Onion customers.

Alex Jones is still required to pay the Sandy Hook families over $1 billion dollars. Alex Jones tried to buy Infowars for $3.5 million, he was the second highest bidder. So the price payed for Infowars is some amount over $3.5 million. Alex Jones still owes the rest of the money.

You are misunderstanding. You are inserting yourself into the scenario and trying to make decisions as if you are the victim. The Sandy Hook families probably already liked The Onion. If they wanted to buy Infowars themselves and gift it to a joke company, then good for them. The Sandy Hook families believe that it is justice for the website to be made into a joke.

Alex Jones has been posting on twitter all day that the Infowars auction was fraudulent and that he’s a victim for not being able to buy the website.

What would be a worse scenario: “Sandy Hook families buy Infowars and gift it to The Onion as a joke” or “Alex Jones buys Infowars from the Sandy Hook families and continues to harass the families of school shooting victims”?

Wouldn’t the Sandy Hook families get (most) of the money from the Infowars auction? So they’re effectively paying themselves I think. Would be interesting who’s paying what amount of money and what the ownership structure is now.

I believe it’s kinda coming out of the billions that Alex Jones owes sandy hook families (that they’ll never see).