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The Onion won the auction for Infowars and was given ‘clear next steps to complete the sale,’ CEO says

Onion CEO Ben Collins posted a thread on Bluesky and X reiterating that The Onion won the auction for Infowars, and said a court date has been set for a week from Monday.

After a judge on Thursday ordered an evidentiary hearing into The Onion' s winning bid to purchase Infowars, Alex Jones’ site resumed operations and claimed the sale has been blocked. “On Thursday, the person overseeing the auction told us that The Onion ’s bid for InfoWars, along with the Connecticut Sandy Hook families, won,” Collins wrote in the thread. “There was a status conference with the judge overseeing the auction on Thursday, shortly after we were deemed winners,” Collins, who formerly covered disinformation and online extremism as a reporter for NBC News, wrote in the thread on Saturday.

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