Judge Approves Sending Alex Jones’s Infowars to the Chopping Block
To pay off his more than $1 billion debt owed to Sandy Hook families, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is being forced to sell his media company InfoWars for parts. On Tuesday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez said that he will move forward with auctions of InfoWars’s trademarks, websites, social accounts, and copyrighted material beginning on November 13. From there, the remaining assets, such as studio equipment and cameras, will be sold at an auction in December. Jones owes families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting nearly $1.5 billion in defamation and emotional distress lawsuits after calling the mass killing a hoax and calling the families “crisis actors.”“Alex Jones will no longer own or control the company he built,” Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, said in a statement Tuesday. “This brings the families closer to their goal of holding him accountable for the harm he has caused.”While a few months ago, Jones broke down and cried publicly and dramatically about the loss of his company, the day before the judgment, he was on tour in Pennsylvania with Tucker Carlson and fellow conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. On stage he was his usual self, shouting about the “globalists” and threatening to imprison his enemies. Notably, Jones’s personal social media is not included in the auction, and he additionally urged his supporters to buy his Infowars assets, which could allow him to continue the show. “It’s very cut and dry that the assets of Free Speech Systems (Infowars parent company), the website, the equipment, the shopping cart, all that, can be sold,” said Jones. “And they know full well that there are a bunch of patriot buyers, and then the operation can ease on.”His fans, including fellow conservative commentators, gave their regards. “What the federal government did to Alex Jones, is positively criminal,” wrote Candace Owens on X.“I’ve always liked Alex Jones,” wrote Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. “He might have said things that were wrong and then he repeatedly apologized. How many times have you ever heard the mainstream media ever apologize about all the horrible things they have said?”
To pay off his more than $1 billion debt owed to Sandy Hook families, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is being forced to sell his media company InfoWars for parts.
On Tuesday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez said that he will move forward with auctions of InfoWars’s trademarks, websites, social accounts, and copyrighted material beginning on November 13. From there, the remaining assets, such as studio equipment and cameras, will be sold at an auction in December.
Jones owes families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting nearly $1.5 billion in defamation and emotional distress lawsuits after calling the mass killing a hoax and calling the families “crisis actors.”
“Alex Jones will no longer own or control the company he built,” Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, said in a statement Tuesday. “This brings the families closer to their goal of holding him accountable for the harm he has caused.”
While a few months ago, Jones broke down and cried publicly and dramatically about the loss of his company, the day before the judgment, he was on tour in Pennsylvania with Tucker Carlson and fellow conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. On stage he was his usual self, shouting about the “globalists” and threatening to imprison his enemies.
Notably, Jones’s personal social media is not included in the auction, and he additionally urged his supporters to buy his Infowars assets, which could allow him to continue the show.
“It’s very cut and dry that the assets of Free Speech Systems (Infowars parent company), the website, the equipment, the shopping cart, all that, can be sold,” said Jones. “And they know full well that there are a bunch of patriot buyers, and then the operation can ease on.”
His fans, including fellow conservative commentators, gave their regards.
“What the federal government did to Alex Jones, is positively criminal,” wrote Candace Owens on X.
“I’ve always liked Alex Jones,” wrote Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. “He might have said things that were wrong and then he repeatedly apologized. How many times have you ever heard the mainstream media ever apologize about all the horrible things they have said?”
