US EditionThe Onion's Bid to Take over Alex Jones' Infowars Is in Limbo as New Court Battles Emerge
A court stay delays the handover as The Onion’s $1.75 million bid to buy Infowars remains tied up in appeals over Alex Jones’s debts.
- The Texas Third Court of Appeals stayed the transfer of Infowars assets to The Onion on Wednesday, temporarily blocking the satirical news outlet's planned takeover of the media company.
- Infowars faces liquidation to satisfy more than $1 billion in defamation judgments owed to families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims after Alex Jones claimed the massacre was a hoax.
- Seeking to repurpose the site as a parody platform, The Onion offered $1.75 million to acquire Infowars with support from Everytown for Gun Safety and Sandy Hook families.
- Thursday's scheduled hearing became a status conference as the court blocked asset transfers while reviewing whether the orders violate an automatic stay triggered by Free Speech Systems' bankruptcy filing.
- A new hearing set for May 28 will address the takeover, as Ben Collins, The Onion's CEO, criticized the legal delays as "unprecedented legal stalling" that delays the deal.
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Texas Supreme Court Now Holds the Onion–Infowars Question as Alex Jones Calls Thursday His 'Last Show' - NewsRescue
The satirical site The Onion’s bid to acquire Alex Jones’s Infowars has bounced from a Houston bankruptcy court to the Fifth Circuit and now to the Supreme Court of Texas. A receiver has stopped paying Infowars’s rent and internet. Jones told viewers Thursday’s broadcast was his last ‘official’ show. The fight over whether the satirical website The Onion can take ownership of Infowars — the media operation built by conservative talk-show host Al…
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The Onion's bid to take over Alex Jones' Infowars is in limbo as new court battles emerge
The Onion's plan to transform Alex Jones' Infowars platforms into parody sites are in limbo again. New legal filings by Jones led a Texas appeals court to pause a proposed deal that would give the satirical news outlet control over Infowars as it faces liquidation.
The Onion’s Ben Collins Is Still Trying to Get His Hands on Infowars
An eleventh-hour ruling means Collins and his satirical newspaper have come up short once again in their quest to play the ultimate joke on Alex Jones. “Is this the most elaborate bullshit that I’ve ever had to encounter to get around to something that I thought was just a nice thing to do? Yes, it is,” Collins says.
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nprThe Onion's bid to take over Infowars moves to the Texas Supreme Court
The state's highest court will now consider a deal that would allow the Onion to license the Infowars brand name and turn the show into a mockery of itself.
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