Judge orders hearing to review Onion's purchase of Alex Jones's InfoWars

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23 points·SamWhited··7 comments

aaaand this will never make it to the front page and HN is yet again guilty of misleading people by rocketing pro-left narratives to the top of the front page while letting the corresponding retractions and corrections wallow in obscurity!

It's on the front page right now.

This is a really weird thing to get paranoid about. Alex Jones was no exemplar of conservative values, for all that he repeated some conservative talking points.

If Musk wants to pay even more money than The Onion and the Sandy Hook families, fine. The Sandy Hook families will get the money.

Though I don't know how you conduct a fair auction now that two key bidders' bids have been revealed.

> The exact bid amount offered by the Onion for InfoWars remains unknown, but it has been reported it was lower than First United American’s bid of $3.5m.

Sounds a lot like FUA won the auction, but the trustee is playing games. The judge ordered a public auction, the trustee and the creditors don't get to side-step the judge's order because some of them might perceive their actions to be a better outcome.

> but the trustee is playing games

Not really. Trustee’s obligation is to the creditors. Some of the creditors agreed to release their claims if it went to a third party. That has monetary value.

Doesn't matter, that's not what the judge had ordered. Trustees don't decide anything, the judge has the final say.

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