"The dissolution of Alex Jones' assets and Infowars' death is the justice we have long waited for and fought for," says Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the shooting in Newton, Connecticut, in a statement from his lawyers.
Jones and his company were sentenced in the fall of 2022 to pay a total of 1.4 billion dollars in fines for spreading lies about the massacre at the school. He spread false claims about the Sandy Hook massacre via Infowars and popular podcasts for several years. Among other things, he claimed that the grieving families were hired actors with the aim of restricting gun rights in the USA.
The sale price of Infowars is still unknown. The auction opened on Wednesday.
Jones confirmed the sale on social media on Thursday and announced that he would take legal action to try to stop it. He has previously said that if opponents buy Infowars, he will move his daily broadcasts to a new platform.
It is also unknown what The Onion plans to do with the platform.
It was in December 2012 that a 20-year-old man broke into the Sandy Hook elementary school and killed 20 small children and 6 adults. The perpetrator then murdered his mother before committing suicide.
The school shooting is one of the deadliest in US history and triggered an intense public debate about gun control, mental health care, and entertainment violence.
