Onion won the Infowars auction and was given ‘clear next steps to complete the sale,’ the CEO said.

After a judge on Thursday ordered an evidentiary hearing Onion’s the winning bid for the purchase InfowarsAlex Jones’ site restarted and said sales were blocked. But Carrots CEO Ben Collins disputed this in an update sent to Bluesky and X on Saturday, writing, “We left the hearing with clear steps to complete the sale.” According to Collins, the court date has been set for a week from Monday, when the process is expected to be completed, as well Infowars requested permission to continue publishing for now. “Long and short: We won the auction and — you won’t believe this — the former InfoWars folks are not taking it well,” Collins wrote.

“On Thursday, the person who presided over the auction told us that Onionthe request of InfoWarsand the families of Connecticut Sandy Hook, won,” Collins wrote in the song. “We haven’t heard anything change that — except, for the guys who are running InfoWars right now, who are doing InfoWars stuff.” Jones surprisingly called the auction “forgotten,” and in a live broadcast on X he said lawyers for Elon Musk’s social media site were involved and attended the hearing. Mother Jones report.

Onion he only went up to one other bidder at the auction Infowars: First United American Companies, associated with a website that sells Jones supplements. The company reportedly cost $3.5 million. Global Tetrahedron’s dollar value (OnionThe parent company’s bid) has not been disclosed, but it was supported by the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. Per BloombergTrustee Christopher Murray, who is liquidating Jones’ estate, said the families had “agreed to waive their potential recovery and serve all other unsecured creditors” owed to Jones.

“There was a status conference with the judge who was presiding over the auction on Thursday, right after we were declared the winner,” said Collins, who has previously covered disinformation and online extremism as a journalist. NBC Newshe wrote in music on Saturday. “The judge had questions about the process and certain assets. We’re glad you’re doing that, as our plea with the families is clearly a priority and transparency is even better.” He added: “We expected all this, obviously. Buying this site was always going to be fun in the long run, but it’s annoying at the same time. The fun part is yet to come.”

Collins’ plan Infowars is to “reboot as a dumb website on the Internet.” The nonprofit organization Everytown for Gun Safety was reportedly the sole advertiser at the launch.