The Onion's purchase of Alex Jones's Infowars rejected by judge
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The sale of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars website to parody news platform The Onion has been rejected by a US bankruptcy judge.
After a two-day hearing, Judge Christopher Lopez ruled that an auction for Infowars did not result in the best bids possible.
However, he rejected Jones' claims that the auction was plagued by "collusion."
The Onion said the bid was secured with the backing of families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, who won a $1.5bn (£1.18bn) defamation lawsuit against Jones for spreading false rumours about the massacre.
Judge Lopez said the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee who ran the auction made "a good-faith error".
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