Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families
Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families
The satirical news publication The Onion has bought Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction with the backing of families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
lol. lmao
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I wanna know how much they spent on this joke. At the end of the day all they bought was a URL right?
The Connecticut families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting that had sued Jones and Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, backed the bid by The Onion to purchase Infowars’ intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and inventory, certain social media accounts and the production equipment used to put Jones on the air. The Connecticut families agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, “enabling its success,” according to lawyers for the families.
So like also some cameras, contact lists, trademarks etc.
The real thing they bought was assurance nobody else could buy it. Especially those customer lists. Lists like that built the modern Right.
They get all the assets like the studio and the fake boner pill business
infowars is a trademark. the auction covers all his accounts and anything related to the brand as far as i know
NYT says less than $3.5M, which is really not very much.
I think also a bunch of IP?
they bought all the IP, immedatly after the sale he pireted all of the videos over to his new website and also called his show the same thing as the show name the Onion bought, so there is a decent chance a lawsuit will go up to stop that
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