Alex Jones

1 week ago - On December 6, 2024, the Connecticut ... Jones owed to about $1.2 billion. It did this by affirming the jury's $965 million verdict while saying that Jones would not have to pay the $150 million in punitive damages that the lower court had awarded the plaintiffs.

June 14, 2024 - Judge Christopher Lopez approved converting Jones' proposed personal bankruptcy reorganization to a liquidation, but threw out the attempted reorganization of his company, Austin, Texas-based Free Speech Systems. Many of the Sandy Hook families had asked that the company also be liquidated.

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2 weeks ago - Alex Jones was forced to sell the platform to help pay the roughly $1.5 billion in damages he owes families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which he called a “hoax.”

November 14, 2024 - Jones filed for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay the families $1.5 billion in damages.

December 8, 2022 - Jones is already making headlines again for platforming Ye’s antisemitic rants. Legal experts explain what’s going on

November 18, 2024 - Alex Jones said that 'the cavalry is here' as attorneys for a prominent company have turned up to possibly help him avoid his beloved Infowars from being sold to The Onion.

November 14, 2024 - The sale price was not immediately disclosed. Jones said on social media that he planned to challenge the sale in court.

3 weeks ago - A Connecticut appeals court on Friday largely upheld a nearly $1.3 billion defamation verdict against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a case accusing the Infowars founder of spreading lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.

2 weeks ago - The bidder that lost last month's auction of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' assets had complained that the process was rigged and "fatally flawed."

2 weeks ago - Alex Jones is set to urge a U.S. bankruptcy judge to block the sale of his Infowars website to the Onion news parody site at a Monday court hearing in Houston.

2 weeks ago - The conspiracy theorist fought the sale of his media brand to the satirical newspaper while facing $1.5 billion in damages from Sandy Hook lawsuit.

2 weeks ago - A bankruptcy judge has blocked The Onion’s winning bid for Alex Jones’ Infowars conspiracy platform, citing concerns with the auction process which he says left money on the table.

2 weeks ago - A federal judge on Tuesday night rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones´ Infowars to The Onion, criticizing the bidding process as flawed and saying the largest bidder was not selected.

June 1, 2024 - Alex Jones declared that his team and the federal government are at a standstill. The federal government was purportedly preparing to take control of and close the Infowars studios in Austin, Texas. As federal authorities allegedly attempted to lock up the doors and forcibly remove all broadcast ...

November 15, 2024 - The satirical news site intends to turn Infowars into a parody of itself. But the court overseeing the bankruptcy put a hold on the sale pending a hearing next week.

2 weeks ago - US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez’s decision means Alex Jones can stay at Infowars in Austin, Texas.