Satirical outlet the Onion’s acquisition of Alex Jones’s InfoWars has been paused by a federal bankruptcy judge after lawyers for Jones and his company complained about how the auction proceeded.
On Thursday, the Onion was named the winner of the bankruptcy auction reportedly bidding $3.5 million for the site. Jones was ordered to sell the site, among other business entities, after he was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in damages for his wide range of conspiracies that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, in which over a dozen schoolchildren and six adults were killed, was a hoax.
A group of affected Sandy Hook families who filed the defamation lawsuit against Jones agreed to accept a smaller payout to increase the overall value of the Onion’s bid, the families’ lawyers said.
At the bankruptcy hearing Thursday, the trustee overseeing the bankruptcy auction said that while…
