As you may have heard, the court-ordered auction of the Infowars brand and all of its assets went ahead last week, with the preliminary sale being made to the allegedly funny satirical rag The Onion.
The forced sale of Infowars is part of a sweeping billion-dollar-plus judgment awarded to family members of the infamous Sandy Hook school shooting after Jones mused on air that it might have been staged, speculation over which is somehow in America enough to cost a journalist their career.
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(This is all obviously about delivering justice and not at all about censoring viewpoints critical of certain powerful interests that run American politics.)
Anyway, it looked last week like the final chapter of this multi-year saga had finally concluded with the sale of the company to The Onion, in collusion with the families and bankrolled by the court award.
But after a judge issued a new hearing to discuss the very apparent and probably unethical/illegal shenanigans The Onion allegedly engaged in to arrange the purchase, Elon Musk’s lawyers stepped in.
Many have speculated he may be interested in buying the outlet himself and potentially resurrecting it.
Via NBC News (emphasis added):
Attorneys for X Corp., the firm established by Elon Musk to take over Twitter, filed a notice of appearance on Thursday in the bankruptcy case of Alex Jones and his Infowars platform.
The new owners of satirical news site The Onion had been declared the successful bidders for Jones’ controversial platform, alongside families of the Sandy Hook massacre victims.
But this week, the Texas bankruptcy judge overhearing the case voiced concerns about the transparency of the auction process and called for a new hearing to discuss those potential issues.
“Nobody should feel comfortable with the results of the auction,” Judge Christopher M. Lopez said, according to a Bloomberg News report.
In his prior capacity with corporate media, former NBC News correspondent and current head of The Onion, Ben Collins, was tasked with attacking independent media outlets (like Infowars, or PJ Media for that matter) that expressed viewpoints critical of the establishment, smearing them with “hate speech” allegations or whatever he could concoct, and ultimately getting them erased from the information ecosystem altogether.
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Continuing:
In a statement on X, The Onion’s chief executive, Ben Collins — who previously covered disinformation and conspiracy theories for NBC News — called assertions made this week by Jones and other Infowars personnel that the auction had formally been “overturned” false, while describing other allegations they leveled as “wacky.”
“We look forward to completing this process at the next scheduled court date,” Collins wrote Saturday.
So, to recap, a former NBC News hack, whose sole job was getting rival media memory-holed, wants to purchase one such rival outlet in order to annihilate it. To achieve this, he colludes with Sandy Hook families who agree to leverage their outlandish civil court judgments levied against the same entity to make it happen, all the while acting with such a lack of transparency that even the judge overseeing the transaction won’t abide it.
Does that sound like justice to you?
