Judge Rejects The Onion’s Purchase of Alex Jones’s Infowars in Bankruptcy Sale

Judge Christopher Lopez said a court-appointed trustee who oversaw the auction made ‘a good-faith error.’

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 on Sept. 5, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

A federal judge in Texas on Dec. 10 rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’s Infowars website to satirical publication The Onion, ruling that the process did not result in the best possible bids and citing concerns about transparency in the process.

The Onion was named the winning bidder of Infowars’s assets during the Nov. 14 auction, part of a personal bankruptcy case Jones filed in late 2022 after he was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in several defamation lawsuits.