Judge Delays Hearing on The Onion’s Bid for Infowars

The assets of Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, were up for sale including the associated social media accounts.

InfoWars founder Alex Jones takes photos at a hearing to examine foreign influence operations' use of social media platforms before the Intelligence Committee at the Capitol in Washington, on Sept. 5, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

A federal bankruptcy judge on Nov. 25 delayed the hearing to next month on whether the sale of Alex Jones’s Infowars company to the satirical news site The Onion underwent a fair auction process.

Judge Christopher Lopez will hear arguments on whether to approve the sale of Infowars to The Onion after Jones and his legal team raised objections to the auction process.