Bankruptcy judge rejects The Onion’s bid to buy Alex Jones’ Infowars

A bankruptcy judge on Tuesday rejected a bid by The Onion’s parent company to buy Alex Jones’ far-right media empire, including the website Infowars, ruling that the auction process was unfair. 

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez said after a two-day hearing that The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, had not submitted the best bid and was wrongly named the winner of an auction last month by a court-appointed trustee. 

“I don’t think it’s enough money,” Lopez said in a late-night ruling from the bench in a Houston court. 

It was not immediately clear whether there would be a new auction in which The Onion could bid again for Jones’ assets. 

The ruling dashed, at least for now, the plans of Global Tetrahedron to take over Infowars and radically shift its content from anti-government conspiracy theories to satirical humor.

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