A glimmer of good news amid all the doom, Alex Jones’ reign of online terror may soon be over with a court-mandated auction to sell off his assets now fast approaching.
Jones was ordered to sell off his notorious conspiracy theory platform InfoWars, along with its parent company Free Speech Systems, to help pay off the nearly $1.5 billion he owes in damages to families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.
Stemming from lawsuits brought in Texas and Connecticut, the action targeted the far-right disinformation merchant for his repeated claims the tragedy was itself a government-staged hoax, and that the grieving parents of 20 children were paid “crisis actors.”
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The auction itself is due to be held on Wednesday. Not that Jones appears set to give up on the outlet that brought him infamy without going down swinging, or at least giving the impression of doing so to his online followers.
“Wednesday afternoon, Infowars [...] and a whole bunch of other stuff is at a federal bankruptcy auction, from the fake judgements and the rigged trials where I was found guilty beforehand, and they had literal show trials like out of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany,” he said in a video posted to X on Tuesday.
Though Jones is in the process of appealing the judgements against him, he has nevertheless publicly acknowledged that the 2012 school shooting was indeed “100 percent real” and not, as he has previously, repeatedly claimed, a “false flag” operation.
“Good guys say they’re gonna buy it. Ok they’re good guys, they buy it, who knows if they’re really good guys once they buy it–we gotta see,” Jones went on in his post. “I don’t count on any of that.”
It was not immediately clear who exactly the conspiracy theorist was referring to. Earlier in September, a coalition of liberal groups and anti-disinformation watchdog groups revealed they had been in close deliberations about the possibility of acquiring Infowars with a view toward using Jones’ platform to “undo some of the damage [he] has caused” over the years.
In the weeks since, however, it’s also emerged that a number of Jones’ supporters, including Roger Stone, have been weighing a prospective bid on his assets, raising the possibility Jones may be able to continue running his platforms even after the auction is ended and the payouts made to the Sandy Hook families.
