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The court-ordered auction of conspiracy kingpin Alex Jones’ company Infowars took place on Wednesday. By late morning Texas time, Jones said the auction had been closed, but the winner, to be chosen by a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee, had not yet been announced.
The proceeds will be distributed to Infowars’ creditors, with the large majority going to the Sandy Hook families who won a series of enormous judgments, roughly totaling $1.5 billion, against Jones and Infowars for lying about the deaths of their children on air.
Jones pushed back on suggestions the sale could end his broadcasting career.
The bids for the company’s assets are sealed, but Jones has made it clear for months that he hopes a supporter will acquire the company and keep him in place, saying on Wednesday that he was “working with” one such bidding group. But he also signaled on Wednesday that if the “bad guys,” as he put it, won the auction, he might not accept the results and would demand a........