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Conspiracy and supplement huckster Alex Jones announced the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee had finalized the sale on Thursday, Nov. 14, NBC News said.
“I just got word 15 minutes ago that my lawyers and folks met with the U.S. trustee over our bankruptcy this morning and they said they are shutting us down even without a court order this morning,” Jones said, per NBC.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I’m going to be here until they come and turn the lights off."
A threat that sounds like an Onion headline.
The 50-year-old Jones was ordered to pay the families of the Sandy Hook School shooting victims $1.5 billion for claiming the massacre was a staged hoax.
Twenty children and six adults were killed in the 2012 Connecticut massacre in Fairfield County, and their families sued Jones for the harassment he sent their way with his wild, unhinged, and wrong claims.
The Onion said it plans to remove everything from InfoWars and turn the site into a comedy website made up o well-known humor writers and content creators, NBC said.
It's unclear how much The Onion paid in the auction for InfoWars and the assets owned by its parent company Free Speech Systems, but the money will go to the Newtown victims' families that sued Jones.
Jones has said he would continue to broadcast on a new platform once the site was sold. Though, he hasn't said where or when that would be.
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