A Houston bankruptcy judge ruled on Tuesday that assets from the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars empire can be auctioned off to help pay families of the Sandy Hook mass shooting victims the defamation awards he owes them.

The auction, set for mid-November, will include Infowars’ website, social media accounts, broadcasting equipment, product trademarks and inventory owned by Free Speech Systems, Infowars’ parent company.

Mr. Jones’s fate as a broadcaster most likely depends on who buys his business. Though the Infowars name and assets are potentially of interest to a range of entities on the far right, under the terms of the sale anyone can bid.

  • Cammy [she/her]
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    17 hours ago

    What would you do if you owned Infowars?

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      12 hours ago

      sell gold coins, survival seeds, reverse mortgages and user meta data.

      LLMs for "content" which are all basically ads crafted to look like editorials about topics of the day.

      basically, wring every cent out of the brand for a year or so, and then delete everything and put up a deep fake video of Alex Jones doing 9/11.