The left-wing watchdog group Media Matters for America has ruled that a Texas judge could liquidate the media outlet to pay the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. In response to the company's defeat, the company reported that it is considering acquiring Alex Jones' Infowars. Report.
Courts in Texas and Connecticut have ruled that Mr. Jones, a conspiracy theorist, must pay $1.5 billion in damages to the family of Mr. Jones, who repeatedly insisted there was no shooting. Last week, a Houston judge ruled that Infowars' parent company, Free Speech Systems, could be liquidated and auctioned to help pay the judgment.
Semaphore reports It was announced on Sunday that a small number of liberal nonprofit groups, including the left-leaning group Media Matters, are considering making a bid for Infowars.
“We are actively considering this acquisition,” Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, told the outlet. Carusone added that the agency will consider looking into the InfoWars archives to see what the outlet has not published.
Jones recently suggested that a purchase of Infowars' assets by his backers would allow him to continue hosting shows in his hometown of Austin, Texas, as an employee of the Infowars brand.
According to Semaphore, Jones has publicly implored Company X chief Elon Musk to buy InfoWars in recent days, and one of Jones' first actions as Twitter owner is to ask Jones to buy InfoWars. It added that it was to revoke the site's ban on the account.
Anonymous sources told the magazine that Jones expects to outbid the competition, take control of the site at auction and find an outside financier to put Jones in charge of the property. Ta.
This may not come as a surprise to Jones' victims, Semaphore reports, with one of the lawsuits targeting InfoWars as a way to raise funds to pay the huge damages Jones is owed. It added that it included allowing the maintenance of
The publication also reported that several other leftist groups are toying with the idea of bidding for Infowars ahead of the November auction.
Jeff Rotkoff, CEO of Barbed Wire, a new Texas-focused digital publication, said he is not currently in a position to acquire the Austin-based company outright, but is open to partnerships. He told the publication that he is in talks with people within his network to move forward. Bid on his site as a group.
“We started barbed wire partly to stop the constant flow of conspiracies and disinformation from people like Alex Jones and Joe Rogan, and to stop some of the damage they've caused. “Using the InfoWars brand to restore the department would be a step toward justice,” Rotkoff said.
An unnamed third-generation executive at a left-leaning media company said this week it was considering a bid, and an adviser to several progressive nonprofit news organizations said they were talking with major donors about making a bid or launching a crowdfunding campaign. Ta.
Semafor also reported that people on the left are making noise about the bidding process.
in post Brian Klassenstein with his twin brother on X earlier this week famous for his viral In an anti-Trump tweet, he said, “We'll rehire Alex Jones under the name Miss Infowars, but we'll dress him up as 'Alexa Jones' and tell him fairy tales.”
Although the post was meant to be a joke, Klassenstein said he was interested in bidding on the site.
“We are actually considering making a bid, but it is definitely beyond our budget, so I don't think we will actually be able to win the bid,” he said. “Maybe you'll get lucky.”
Both Jones and his company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2022, the same year after Jones repeatedly claimed the 2012 school shooting was a hoax orchestrated by “crisis managers” to get more guns. Sandy Hook family wins nearly $1.5 billion in defamation and emotional distress lawsuit against Jones. The regulatory bill was passed.
Twenty first graders and six educators were killed in a shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
