Judge to audit if conspiracy theorist’s bankruptcy auction was fair, which could delay buying process for satire site

“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” the judge, Christopher Lopez, said in an emergency hearing on Thursday afternoon. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”

Oh bullshit.

  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    76·
    9 hours ago

    Is this not the capitalist dystopia they wanted? It was an auction, The Onion was the highest bidder, and the discussion should stop there, right?

    • KyuuketsukiEnglish
      51·
      8 hours ago

      “The Onion was the highest bidder[…]”

      Literally the point of the suit is that The Onion was not the highest bidder. From the article:

      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.

      The victims of Jones decided it was better to get less money and not allow the brand to go to one of his allies to continue the usual operations. They are saying that even though they effectively own the brand, that they don’t have the right to choose who it’s sold to.

      There is only one way this should go, but…