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A Houston bankruptcy judge ruled on Tuesday that assets from the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars empire can be auctioned off to help pay families of the Sandy Hook mass shooting victims the defamation awards he owes them.

The auction, set for mid-November, will include Infowars’ website, social media accounts, broadcasting equipment, product trademarks and inventory owned by Free Speech Systems, Infowars’ parent company.

Mr. Jones’s fate as a broadcaster most likely depends on who buys his business. Though the Infowars name and assets are potentially of interest to a range of entities on the far right, under the terms of the sale anyone can bid.

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[-] deforestgump@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago

Hasan Piker has the opportunity to do the most hilarious thing ever

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 61 points 2 days ago

Brace Belden has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago

It'd be hilarious if Infowars was purchased by a leftist org but the most likely outcome is that melon-musk or some other billionaire buys it and keeps Alex Jones on air because he still brings in money.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago
  1. Someone buys InfoWars

  2. They have it redirect to PPB

[-] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

get a fund up and going lads, we're about to do something extremely funny...

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago

We can barely fund hexbear servers

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago
[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

Infowars Hexbear edition would be flying way too close to the lathe

[-] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

Would be a shame if he were to slip into a downward spiral packwatch

[-] blame@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

what is infowars even worth without alex jones

[-] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

Yeah I don't see this stopping Alex Jones. Hell just start a "new" podcast called something else and bring in donations. As long as he has at least a cell phone mic and a paypal account he'll be doin some form of info wars

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

He starts a new podcast called Knowledge Fight and sues the hosts of the already-existing podcast of the same name.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

It's win-win for us. Either the right wing nuts pay a lot of money which in turn will go directly to people they hate, or if they lowball they risk losing the established brand to liberals or leftists.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago

Beyond funny if the Knowledge Fight guys won the auction.

https://knowledgefight.com/

[-] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Funny on a lot of levels but the biggest would be Alex having to finally acknowledge their existence lol

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

They auctioning off the boner pills or brainforce?

[-] birdcat@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

5 bucks, last offer!

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

The real 9/11 was when a bowl of spicy chili flew into Alex Jones brain

[-] Cammy@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

What would you do if you owned Infowars?

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

sell gold coins, survival seeds, reverse mortgages and user meta data.

LLMs for "content" which are all basically ads crafted to look like editorials about topics of the day.

basically, wring every cent out of the brand for a year or so, and then delete everything and put up a deep fake video of Alex Jones doing 9/11.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

publish photos of my poop

[-] someone@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

The USSR anthem on repeat.

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago
[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

Lost the drug war, lost the war on terror, now losing the infowar

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

Folks, let's buy InfoWars

I can do a really good Alex Jones impersonation

We can turn the cranks into our puppets!

[-] Taster_Of_Treats@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Jacob Wysocky has the best Alex Jones impression. It's in the last 30 seconds or so: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=HONg0ZYg1Do

[-] Thann@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Its great! Some rich asshole buys it, then the next day, when Alex defames someone again, the next guy can get sued into oblivion

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Good things can happen sometimes

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago
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