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August 15, 2025
Lawfare
Media

The Courts Are Trying to Sell Off Alex Jones’s Infowars Again.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: A Texas judge has ordered the sale of Alex Jones’s Infowars platform to help pay over $1 billion in damages to Sandy Hook families.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Alex Jones, Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, Sandy Hook families, attorneys Chris Mattei and Mark Bankston, and The Onion.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The ruling was issued on Wednesday in a Texas district court.

💬KEY QUOTE: “They are trying to shut us down right now!” – Alex Jones

🎯IMPACT: Infowars’ assets will be liquidated to pay damages, potentially dismantling Alex Jones’s media platform.

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Alex Jones’s Infowars must be sold to help pay the more than $1 billion awarded to the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims, a Texas district court judge has ordered. Judge Maya Guerra Gamble stated during a Wednesday hearing that Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, will be placed under the control of a court-appointed receiver. This receiver will oversee the sale of assets to pay Jones’s debts to the Sandy Hook families.

The decision clears the way for The Onion to potentially revive its bid for the outlet. The satirical news outfit had previously won a court-mandated auction for Infowars’ parent company, but the sale was halted in December by a federal bankruptcy judge due to concerns over the auction process. The judge later ruled that the families should pursue damages in state court rather than federal court.

Jones was found guilty of defamation in 2022 over statements related to the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings. On his show Wednesday, Jones expressed frustration over the ruling, stating he was “pissed off” but acknowledged he was “resigned” to the likelihood that Infowars would have to shut down.

He indicated that he plans to continue broadcasting under a different brand.

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December 11, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare
News

Judge Blocks Infowars Sale to The Onion. Here’s Why…

Alex Jones will be allowed to remain in control of InfoWars—at least for the time being—after a federal judge blocked its sale to the satirical news site The Onion late Tuesday night. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez found in favor of Jones, determining that the auction trustee failed to ensure the maximum value was secured.

While hinting at potential collusion, Judge Lopez insisted the trustee had made a good faith error in not reopening the auction to more bids, including from the second-place bidder, First American United Companies—affiliated with Alex Jones’s supplement business. “This should have been opened back up, and it should have been opened back up for everybody,” Lopez said, continuing: “It’s clear the trustee left the potential for a lot of money on the table.”

“You got to scratch and claw and get everything you can for them,” the bankruptcy judge added.

The National Pulse reported in November that The Onion had initially won the auction, which was intended to settle Jones’s outstanding debt stemming from a civil lawsuit brought against him by Sandy Hook school shooting victims’s families.

Along with the Jones-affiliated First American United Companies, other bidders and individuals believed to have considered purchasing InfoWars included Angelo Carusone, president of the George Soros-funded Media Matters for America.

It appears Jones will continue to own InfoWars for the time being. Judge Lopez ordered trustee Christopher Murray to resolve financial claims between Jones’s creditors first before making another attempt to auction Infowars to settle any debts.

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Alex Jones will be allowed to remain in control of InfoWars—at least for the time being—after a federal judge blocked its sale to the satirical news site The Onion late Tuesday night. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez found in favor of Jones, determining that the auction trustee failed to ensure the maximum value was secured. show more
November 25, 2024
News

Musk’s X Corp Challenges Sale of Alex Jones’s X Accounts in Bankruptcy Case.

Elon Musk’s X Corp has filed a limited objection concerning the potential sale or transfer of X accounts associated with Alex Jones and Infowars. The action aims to prevent The Onion, a satirical news outlet, from acquiring these accounts. The legal filing, made public by Jones himself via a screenshot on the platform, specifies X Corp’s stance against the transaction involving several accounts. These include the Infowars X account, BANNEDdotVIDEO account, The War Room account, and Alex Jones’s personal X account, among others controlled by Jones or his associated entities.

X Corp’s official objection lists their opposition to any form of sale, assignment, or transfer of these accounts, collectively referred to as the “X Accounts.” This development occurs as Jones navigates bankruptcy proceedings, following legal action by families affected by the Sandy Hook shooting. Jones previously claimed the shooting victims were crisis actors, a statement he later retracted with an apology. A judge ordered Jones to pay Sandy Hook families an astonishing $1.5 billion in damages, and his assets and businesses are being liquidated to partially cover the sum.

Earlier in October, Texas bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. Lopez expressed concerns regarding the lack of transparency in the purchase and auction of Infowars. He urged more openness in the proceedings, temporarily hindering The Onion’s acquisition plans. In response, X Corp also filed a motion to participate in the bankruptcy case, signaling its vested interest in the outcome.

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Elon Musk's X Corp has filed a limited objection concerning the potential sale or transfer of X accounts associated with Alex Jones and Infowars. The action aims to prevent The Onion, a satirical news outlet, from acquiring these accounts. The legal filing, made public by Jones himself via a screenshot on the platform, specifies X Corp's stance against the transaction involving several accounts. These include the Infowars X account, BANNEDdotVIDEO account, The War Room account, and Alex Jones’s personal X account, among others controlled by Jones or his associated entities. show more
November 14, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Lawfare
Media

Satire Site The Onion Purchases Alex Jones’s Infowars.

The satirical news site The Onion has secured Alex Jones‘s Infowars in a bankruptcy auction, backed by Sandy Hook families owed over $1 billion by Jones following a crippling defamation lawsuit. Robbie Parker, whose daughter was killed in the tragedy, celebrated the purchase, admitting the destruction of Jones’s business was an underlying goal of the defamation suit: “The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the end of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” he said.

The sale price remains undisclosed, and Jones, in a social media video, has stated he intends to file legal objections. He also claims efforts are being made to shut down his studio presently, without a court order, and that he expects his broadcast on Thursday will be his last.

The Onion has so far declined to comment on its plans for Infowars’ assets, including the website, studio, and video archives.

Jones has said he plans to move his broadcasts to new platforms if necessary and that preparations have already been made.

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The satirical news site The Onion has secured Alex Jones's Infowars in a bankruptcy auction, backed by Sandy Hook families owed over $1 billion by Jones following a crippling defamation lawsuit. Robbie Parker, whose daughter was killed in the tragedy, celebrated the purchase, admitting the destruction of Jones's business was an underlying goal of the defamation suit: “The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the end of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” he said. show more
October 1, 2024
Lawfare
Media

Soros Allies Mull InfoWars Purchase.

A Houston judge has ruled that the media company Free Speech Systems, the parent company of InfoWars, can be liquidated through an auction to settle nearly $1.5 billion in damages owed to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. Courts in Connecticut and Texas ordered the damages as punitive relief over Alex Jones, the host of InfoWars, claiming the shooting was a hoax.

The auction is drawing interest from Angelo Carusone, president of the George Soros-funded Media Matters for America. Carusone notes the potential value of InfoWars archives, suggesting they might hold unreleased material Media Matters can exploit. Such an acquisition would delight left-liberals, who despise Jones.

Jeff Rotkoff, publisher of the Texas-focused digital publication The Barbed Wire and Texas state director of Democrat super PAC Forward Majority, is also showing interest. “We started The Barbed Wire in part to disrupt the constant stream of conspiracies and disinformation from people like Alex Jones and Joe Rogan, and it would be a step towards justice to use the InfoWars brand to undo some of the damage they’ve caused,” Rotkoff suggests.

The fine imposed on Jones dwarfs many high-profile criminal fines. For instance, ExxonMobil Corporation only received a $125 million penalty for the Exxon Valdez oil disaster.

Jones believes the judgment is political and intended to ruin him and his company. Secret recordings of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employee and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Gavin O’Blennis suggest the FBI influenced the Sandy Hook families to “chop [Jones’s] legs off” financially.

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A Houston judge has ruled that the media company Free Speech Systems, the parent company of InfoWars, can be liquidated through an auction to settle nearly $1.5 billion in damages owed to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. Courts in Connecticut and Texas ordered the damages as punitive relief over Alex Jones, the host of InfoWars, claiming the shooting was a hoax. show more
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April 12, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Corruption
News

Alex Jones Vows to Sue FBI, CIA Over Hidden Camera Footage.

Alex Jones plans to sue the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) following the release of video footage showing a man described as a former FBI employee and CIA contractor saying, “We were after [Jones], hardcore.”

Hidden camera footage released by Sound Investigations shows the man, identified as Gavin O’Blennis, describe how “you can kinda put anyone in jail if you know what to do.”

“You set ’em up,” O’Blennis says, explaining how the authorities can “create the situation where they have no choice but to act on their impulse, and once they act on that impulse, some would call that entrapment.”

Referring to Jones, he said, “We were after him, hardcore,” and successfully “took his money away” and “chop[ped] his legs off.”

Jones was fined over a billion dollars following defamation lawsuits from victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, which he once described as “fake.” Jones and his media company, Free Speech Systems, were forced into bankruptcy by the rulings. O’Blennis suggested federal authorities helped the families bring their cases.

“[O’Blennis] needs to be subpoenaed by Congress,” Jones said following the release of the Sound Investigations footage.

“I am planning to launch a lawsuit against the CIA and the FBI, we have to bring all this out,” he continued. “It’s obviously a civil rights violation; it’s a government racketeering operation using cut-outs.”

The CIA and FBI are yet to respond to confirm O’Blennis’s identity and affiliation with their agencies.

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Alex Jones plans to sue the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) following the release of video footage showing a man described as a former FBI employee and CIA contractor saying, "We were after [Jones], hardcore." show more
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April 9, 2024
News

WATCH: Ex-FBI, CIA Man Reveals Stunning Details on Jan 6/Undercover Agents – ‘You Set Them Up.’

A former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employee and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor was captured in a series of undercover videos admitting to the presence of FBI agents among the crowd outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The footage, captured by Sound Investigations, shows Gavin O’Blennis — who worked for both the FBI and CIA — claiming that there were upwards of 20 FBI agents embedded among the protestors.

O’Blennis, who appears to now work with President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), suggested this is a common practice during protests in the nation’s capital. The former FBI employee’s claims echo an admission made last year by former U.S. Capitol Police chief Steven Sund that “There was a fair amount of law enforcement in the crowd.”

When asked about the limits of the agency’s power, O’Blennis insinuated there are few constraints. “You can kind of put anyone in jail if you know what to do,” he said before continuing: “You set them up. You create the situation where they have no choice but to act on their impulse.” O’Blennis admitted the agency’s actions come close to “entrapment.”

Sound Investigations says the recordings were made during three conversations with O’Blennis on March 15, 22, and 28th. He also disclosed that the FBI quietly influenced the Sandy Hook families’ lawsuit against Alex Jones to deplete his finances. The lawsuit resulted in a $85 million payout to the families over ten years after Jones voiced conspiracy theories regarding the Sandy Hook shooting, which he later retracted and apologized for.

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A former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employee and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor was captured in a series of undercover videos admitting to the presence of FBI agents among the crowd outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The footage, captured by Sound Investigations, shows Gavin O'Blennis — who worked for both the FBI and CIA — claiming that there were upwards of 20 FBI agents embedded among the protestors. show more
November 29, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Media

Sandy Hook Families Demand $85M from Alex Jones to Settle $1.5BN Suit.

Lawyers for Sandy Hook families who sued Alex Jones say they will settle for $85 million over ten years. A judge initially ordered Jones to pay an astonishing $1.5 billion, because he said he believed the Sandy Hook shooting was a false flag staged to make the case for tighter gun controls. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, subsequently filed for bankruptcy.

The lawyers complain Jones continues to live an “extravagant lifestyle”. They also complain he is not selling off his assets or preserving his estate’s value.

“Jones has failed in every way to serve as the fiduciary mandated by the Bankruptcy Code in exchange for the breathing spell he has enjoyed for almost a year. His time is up,” the lawyers wrote to the court overseeing his bankruptcy. They say Jones can either liquidate his estate or agree to hand over $8.5 million a year for a decade, plus half of any income over $9 million per year.

Jones’s bankruptcy lawyer, however, argues the proposed settlement is unreasonable.

“There are no financials that will ever show that Mr. Jones ever made [enough money to pay $85 milliom] in 10 years,” she says.

Jones has told the court the most he can manage is $4 million a year. This would be funded through sales of his supplements and merchandise, among other revenue streams. His operating costs are around $14.3 million, including his $520,000 salary.

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Lawyers for Sandy Hook families who sued Alex Jones say they will settle for $85 million over ten years. A judge initially ordered Jones to pay an astonishing $1.5 billion, because he said he believed the Sandy Hook shooting was a false flag staged to make the case for tighter gun controls. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, subsequently filed for bankruptcy. show more
October 19, 2023
William Upton
News

MSNBC Analyst Pens Essay Defending CCP & Iran From Bannon.

MSNBC analyst and far-left website ‘Mother Jones’ Washington bureau chief David Corn has published an essay dismissing Steve Bannon’s assessment that China and Iran are more-than-eager to foment the war between Israel and Hamas as the conflict could serve to diminish American power. Surmising that regional and global powers like China and Iran could benefit from a worn down and war weary America is a “conspiracy theory” according to Corn.

Bannon’s theory about Chinese and Iranian interests in the Israel-Hamas conflict is wrong because he discussed it with War Room guest Alex Jones, says Corn, who calls Jones “scurrilous conspiracist” and “dangerous grifter.” Despite the ad hominem, what Jones told Bannon is a reasonable estimation of how Chinese grand strategy is intertwined with the interests of the global anti-American elite:

“[They] want to wear [out] America, destabilize America, and drive nations of the world away from a Western uni-power to this multi-polar world they talk about that really will finally end up unseating the US as the dominant force of the planet.”

The Chinese Communist Party has been shown to be actively working to undermine the power and influence of Western nation’s around the globe. In the United Kingdom two parliament staffers with links to senior lawmakers were arrested in March on the suspicion that they were acting as spies for Communist China. The UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee even published a report admitting that China had infiltrated every level of the country’s economy in an effort to exert influence over the British nation and its interests.

In the U.S., powerful Wall Street interests, like hedge-fund billionaire Jeff Yass, have poured money into preventing the government from banning the Chinese social media app TikTok – despite credible accusations that the Chinese Communist Party uses the app as an espionage tool. Yass is a major investor in TikTok with $21 billion of his $28 billion net worth wrapped up in the app. And in an example that adds additional strength to Bannon’s thoughts on China, the communist nation continues to back the Russian invasion of Ukraine in an effort to undermine the U.S. hegemony and push us towards a multi-polar world.

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MSNBC analyst and far-left website 'Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief David Corn has published an essay dismissing Steve Bannon's assessment that China and Iran are more-than-eager to foment the war between Israel and Hamas as the conflict could serve to diminish American power. Surmising that regional and global powers like China and Iran could benefit from a worn down and war weary America is a "conspiracy theory" according to Corn. show more