Alex Jones’ Infowars could fall into the hands of the people he despises the most as conspiracy theorist attempts to pay Sandy Hook families

Alex Jones faces the possibility that his media platform Infowars could be sold to one of his many liberal enemies as he begs Elon Musk to save it.

Infowars will be auctioned off to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes to the relatives of Sandy Hook victims after claiming the 2012 tragedy was a hoax.

The auction of the media platform and all its assets will start in November, Houston Judge Christopher Lopez said during a court hearing on Tuesday, in a blow to Jones.

The auction has already attracted a number of people who hate the broadcaster and conspiracy theorist, including Media Matters for America president Angelo Carusone.

The progressive site, which made a name for itself by posting many of Jones’ most famous rants, is investigating not only an attempt to gain control of the site, but also for all the wild information that Infowars has not published in its archives.

“We are carefully considering this acquisition,” Carusone said Semafor. “As we saw with the Tucker tapes, the archives can contain unbroadcast material that ultimately has real news value – not gloating – but actually useful information.”

Jeff Rotkoff, who runs a liberal super PAC and recently set up a store in Texas called The Barbed Wire, says he also wants to bid.

“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 toward justice if we used the Infowars brand to share some of undo the damage they have caused. Rotkoff said.

Brian Krassenstein, an anti-Trump social media journalist, has taken a blunt approach to potential bids.

‘I would like to announce that I will be bidding on infowars when it goes up for auction next month. “Once I win it, I’ll call it MissInfoWars and rehire Alex Jones but have him dress up as ‘Alexa Jones’ and tell fairy tales,” he wrote on social media.

He later said he will make a bid, but doesn’t think their budget will allow them to win.

He has also suggested that Infowars’ assets could be purchased by his supporters, allowing him to continue hosting his show as an employee under the Infowars brand in their hometown of Austin, Texas.

“It’s very shortsighted that Free Speech Systems’ assets, the website, the equipment, the shopping cart, all of that, can be sold,” Jones said on a recent show. “And they know very well that there are a bunch of patriotic buyers, and then the operation can be lightened.”

Jones asked Elon Musk to buy Infowars in recent days, writing, “This is a great idea! The ultimate middle finger to the rotting globalist establishment.’

One person who won’t bid is George Soros, a longtime enemy of Jones and the focus of his many rants, who said he wasn’t interested.

Despite the impending loss of his business, Jones has vowed to continue his talk shows in other ways, possibly including a new website and his personal social media accounts.

Jones has made millions of dollars over the years selling nutritional supplements, clothing, survival gear, books and other items that he promotes on his shows, which air on the Internet and on dozens of radio stations.

It is unclear how much money would be raised by selling the Infowars and Jones assets, and how much money the Sandy Hook families would get.

Jones has approximately $9 million in personal assets, according to court records. According to previous court testimony, Free Speech Systems has approximately $6 million in cash and approximately $1.2 million in inventory on hand.

During two civil trials in Texas and Connecticut, parents and children of many of the victims testified that they were traumatized by Jones’s hoax conspiracies and the actions of his followers.

They said they were harassed and threatened by Jones’ believers, some of whom personally confronted the grieving families, saying the shooting never happened and their children never existed. One parent said someone threatened to dig up his dead son’s grave.

Judge Lopez added Tuesday that he must first modify an earlier order to clarify that the trustee overseeing Jones’ personal bankruptcy case controls all assets of Infowars parent company Free Speech Systems, which is 100 percent owned by Jones.

Jones and his company both filed for bankruptcy protection in 2022 — the same year the Sandy Hook families won nearly $1.5 billion in defamation and emotional distress lawsuits against Jones for repeatedly calling the 2012 Connecticut school a staged hoax by ‘crisis actors’ to get more. gun control legislation passed.

Jones is appealing the civil jury verdicts, citing the right to free speech and questioning whether the families have proven any connection between his comments and the people who harassed and threatened the family members.

He has since acknowledged that the shooting occurred.

The Sandy Hook families who won the Connecticut lawsuit want Jones to lose his personal social media accounts.

Their lawyers further argue that the families should get a share of all of Jones’ future earnings to pay off his more than $1 billion debt.

The remainder of Infowars’ assets, including computers, video cameras and other studio equipment, were scheduled to be sold at another auction on December 10.

A remaining legal dispute in the bankruptcy case is whether Free Speech Systems owes more than $50 million to another Jones company, PQPR Holdings Limited.

Free Speech Systems purchases nutritional supplements from PQPR to sell on the Infowars website. PQPR said it had not been paid for many of the supplements and filed liens.

Sandy Hook’s attorneys claim the debt is bogus.

If the debt is found to be valid, it could reduce the amount of money the Sandy Hook families ultimately get from the liquidations.