X, the social platform owned by Elon Musk, is getting involved in the pending bankruptcy sale of Alex Jones’s Infowars to the satirical newspaper The Onion. In an objection filed Monday, X said its terms of service (TOS) prevent Jones’s X accounts from being sold off without the company’s approval. The platform does not oppose the other aspects of the sale.

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District of Columbia

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X claims ownership of Infowars accounts

The conspiracy theorist said the world’s wealthiest man would be ‘very involved’ in the legal battle  Read More The post Elon Musk is trying to stop The Onion from taking Alex Jones and InfoWars accounts on X appeared first on Drudge Report.

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The Independent

Evgeny Lebedev

London

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Elon Musk is trying to stop The Onion from taking Alex Jones and InfoWars accounts on X

Elon Musk's X claimed control of the Infowars social media account this week, arguing it owns everything on its platform.

Washington Times

The Washington Times LLC

X claims ownership of Infowars’ account to block sale to Onion

X, the social platform owned by Elon Musk, is getting involved in the pending bankruptcy sale of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars to the satirical newspaper The Onion.

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Constitutional challenges to the National Labor Relations Board may end up before the Supreme Court, with grave implications for workers and unions.

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Verizon Communications

Elon Musk Wants To Wreck A Crucial Agency That No One Is Talking About

Satirical newspaper The Onion made waves when it moved to buy the assets of Infowars, the far-right conspiracy theory webcast of Alex Jones, from a bankruptcy auction. But there was a sudden, unexpected wrinkle in the sale, reported 404 Media on Tuesday: lawyers for tech billionaire Elon Musk object...

Raw Story

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Michael Rogers (publisher)

'Highly unusual': Elon Musk's X objects to very specific piece of The Onion's Infowars bid

In the ongoing bankruptcy sale of Alex Jones' Infowars website to the satirical outlet The Onion, Elon Musk's social media platform X is now getting involved.

Herring Networks

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San Diego County

California

X Platform Claims Ownership Of Alex Jones' Infowars Account Amid Bankruptcy Legal Battle

Elon Musk, Javier Milei and UFC fighters rave about old Austrian economists. At our appearance in Vienna, we explain what right-libertarians find attractive about Hayek and co.

Elon Musk, Javier Milei und UFC-Kämpfer schwärmen von alten österreichischen Ökonomen. Wir erklären beim Auftritt in Wien, was Rechtslibertäre an Hayek und Co. finden.

Alpenpodcast: Elon und die Österreicher

Zeit Online

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Germany

Alpenpodcast: Elon and the Austrians

The Onion, a satirical publication, won a bankruptcy auction earlier this month to purchase conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ website, InfoWars, and other related assets. However, that sale is now in limbo after a federal judge temporarily halted the deal.  On Monday, Elon Musk threw yet another wrench in the works, objecting to the transfer of InfoWars’ X accounts to its new owners. X Corporation broadly claims that it owns all X accounts on its …

TechCrunch

Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of InfoWars' X accounts to The Onion

The sale of Jones's accounts is meant to pay $1.5 billion in damages to grieving Sandy Hook families.

Fortune

Chatchaval Jiaravanon

New York

Elon Musk’s X files last-minute objection to block the sale of Alex Jones’ X accounts

In the court filing, X argued that while users retain ownership of the content they post, the accounts themselves remain under X’s control. This distinction, the company claims, prevents accounts from being sold, assigned, or transferred without X’s consent, even as part of bankruptcy

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Mumbai

Maharashtra

India

Elon Musk owns your X account, not you, according to docs submitted by his lawyers in a bizarre case

Musk's X claims ownership of InfoWars accounts in sale to The Onion

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