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Alex Jones Sues Sandy Hook Families In Fight To Keep Control of Media Empire: Report Alex Jones Sues Sandy Hook Families In Fight To Keep Control of Media Empire: Report
Alex Jones Sues Sandy Hook Families In Fight To Keep Control of Media Empire: Report In a case that reads like dark satire itself, Alex Jones is suing the comedy website The Onion and the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre claiming they colluded to buy his right-wing conspiracy theory show "InfoWars" in a bankruptcy auction, reports said. Lawyers for Jones, who owes a $1.5 billion judgment to Sandy Hook families after spreading false claims that the 2012 school shooting was a hoax, argued in court documents that The Onion's winning $1.75 million bid was "flagrantly non-compliant" and designed to "rig the process," according to NPR. Earlier Report: Back…

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Alex Jones' InfoWars Up For Auction To Pay Sandy Hook Victims' Families: Report Alex Jones' InfoWars Up For Auction To Pay Sandy Hook Victims' Families: Report
Alex Jones' InfoWars Up For Auction To Pay Sandy Hook Victims' Families: Report The tools Alex Jones used to build his conspiracy theory and supplement-hawking empire could soon be yours, NPR reported.  A court-appointed trustee will soon begin to auction off pieces of Free Speech Systems, the parent company of InfoWars, to pay back the families of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting victims, the report continued.  Jones owes them $1.5 billion in a defamation judgment after he claimed the massacre, which killed 26 people — 20 of them children – was a hoax.  The trustee will sell everything from chairs and production equipment to the InfoWars brand name, th…

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by Josh Lanier