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Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Company linked to Alex Jones doubles offer to buy Infowars after failed bankruptcy auction

A company linked to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is now offering over $7 million to buy his Infowars platforms as part of Jones’ bankruptcy.
 
FILE - Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, file)

What happens next with Alex Jones’ Infowars? No certainty yet after sale to The Onion is rejected

 
FILE - Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, file)

Judge rejects sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion in dispute over bankruptcy auction

 
FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Auctioneer defends The Onion’s bid for Infowars as Alex Jones tries stopping sale

 
FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks outside the federal courthouse after a bankruptcy hearing Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Connecticut court upholds $965 million verdict against Alex Jones in Sandy Hook

 

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Judge rejects sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion in dispute over bankruptcy auction

 
FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks outside the federal courthouse after a bankruptcy hearing Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

The Onion’s bid for Alex Jones’ Infowars hangs in the balance as judge orders new hearing

 
FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Company affiliated with Alex Jones seeks to disqualify The Onion’s auction bid on Infowars

 

Bankruptcy judge orders hearing on Infowars sale to satirical site The Onion after Alex Jones challenges auction

 
FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks outside the federal courthouse after a bankruptcy hearing Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

What happens next in The Onion’s effort to buy Alex Jones’ Infowars

 
FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families’ backing

 
FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Who will buy Infowars? Both supporters and opponents of Alex Jones interested in bankruptcy auction

 
FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. A federal bankruptcy judge Thursday, June 27, stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to collect on some of the $50 million owed to them by Jones and his company for his claims that the massacre was a hoax. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Judge stops parents’ effort to collect on $50M Alex Jones owes for saying Newtown shooting was hoax

 
Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, June 14, 2024, in Houston. A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down Jones' Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments Jones owes for repeatedly calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, file)

Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Alex Jones’ Infowars and liquidate assets

 
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones gives a thumbs-up as he goes through security at the federal courthouse after arriving for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. The judge is expected to rule on whether to liquidate Jones' assets to help pay the $1.5 billion he owes for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

What we know about the fight between conspiracist Alex Jones and Sandy Hook families over his assets

 
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones pauses before speaking to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. The judge is expected to rule on whether to liquidate Jones' assets to help pay the $1.5 billion he owes for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Alex Jones’ personal assets to be sold to pay $1.5B Sandy Hook debt. Company bankruptcy is dismissed

 
FILE - Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court, Sept. 22, 2022, in Waterbury, Conn. Relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are asking a bankruptcy judge to liquidate Jones' media company including Infowars instead of allowing him to reorganize his business, as they seek to collect on $1.5 billion in lawsuit verdicts against him. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)

Judge rejects call to immediately shut down Alex Jones’ Infowars in bankruptcy dispute

 
FILE - Norm Pattis, attorney for Alex Jones, addresses the court during his closing statements in the Alex Jones Sandy Hook defamation damages trial in Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., on Oct. 6, 2022. (H John Voorhees III/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, file)

Court overturns suspension of Alex Jones’ lawyer in Sandy Hook case that led to $1.4B judgment

 

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FILE - Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones rallies pro-Trump supporters, Nov. 5, 2020, in Phoenix. Jones' latest bankruptcy plan would pay Sandy Hook families a minimum total of $55 million over 10 years, a fraction of the $1.5 billion awarded to the relatives in lawsuits against Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting a hoax.(AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Alex Jones offers to pay Newtown families at least $55 million over school shooting hoax conspiracy

 
FILE - Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones rallies pro-Trump supporters, Nov. 5, 2020, in Phoenix. Jones' latest bankruptcy plan would pay Sandy Hook families a minimum total of $55 million over 10 years, a fraction of the $1.5 billion awarded to the relatives in lawsuits against Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting a hoax.(AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Court upholds $75,000 in fines against Alex Jones for missing Sandy Hook case deposition

 
FILE - Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court, Sept. 22, 2022, in Waterbury, Conn. Sandy Hook families who won nearly $1.5 billion in legal judgments against conspiracy theorist Jones for calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a hoax have offered to settle that debt for only pennies on the dollar — at least $85 million over 10 years. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)

Sandy Hook families offer to settle Alex Jones’ $1.5 billion legal debt for a minimum of $85 million

 
FILE - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones takes the witness stand to testify at the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn. Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. A Texas judge has ruled that Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying nearly $1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)

Judge rules Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy Hook families

 
Kenneth Chesebro, left, confers with is lawyer Scott Grubman, as Judge Scott MacAfee presides as the lawyers of Sidney Powell and Chesebro appear during a motions hearing in the election subversion case Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Atlanta. Powell and Chesebro, indicted in August along with Trump and others, are accused of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, which Donald Trump, the Republican incumbent, had lost to Democrat Joe Biden. (Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP)

Alex Jones, Ronna McDaniel potential witnesses in Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro’s Georgia trial

 
FILE - Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., on Sept. 22, 2022. A bank recently shut down the accounts of Jones' media company citing unauthorized transactions — a move that caused panic at the business when its balances suddenly dropped from more than $2 million to zero, according to a bankruptcy lawyer for the company. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)

Bank that handles Infowars money appears to be cutting ties with Alex Jones’ company, lawyer says

 
Infowars host Owen Shroyer, speaks to reporters outside the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Federal Courthouse, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023 in Washington. Shroyer was sentenced on Tuesday to two months behind bars for joining the mob's riot at the U.S. Capitol. Prosecutors said Shroyer “helped create" Jan. 6, 2021, by spewing violent rhetoric and spreading baseless claims of election fraud to hundreds of thousands of viewers. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Infowars host Owen Shroyer gets 2 months behind bars in Capitol riot case