X Objects To Bankruptcy Sale Of Alex Jones, Infowars Assets

Elon Musk’s X Corp. filed a limited objection Monday against the sale or transfer of any X accounts handled by Alex Jones or his media platform, Infowars, in a bid to prevent The Onion from acquiring them.

X Corp.’s legal filing outlines their objections to transferring the Infowars X account, the Banned.Video X account, The War Room X account, the Alex Jones X Account and any other accounts that Free Speech Systems (FSS), a company owned by Jones, or Jones himself manages on the platform. The document also says that while account holders own the content they produce, the underlying services—including websites, applications, and other tools—are solely the property of X Corp.

“While X Corp. has granted account holders, such as Jones and FSS, a license to use the Services, such license is non-assignable, both under the terms of the [terms of service] and applicable non-bankruptcy law (i.e., as a personal services contract), and the Trustee cannot sell, assign, or otherwise transfer such license absent X Corp.’s consent,” the filing said.

This distinction, X Corp said, means that the rights to use the platform are non-transferable under both the service terms and applicable non-bankruptcy law. This legal action coincides with The Onion’s ongoing attempts to purchase Infowars to help settle a nearly $1.5 billion lawsuit.

Supported by the families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims, The Onion intends to transform Infowars into a self-parody targeting peculiar internet personalities by January 2025, as said by Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron. These families had sued Jones after he falsely claimed that the tragedy, which involved the murder of several children and teachers, was staged.

A Texas federal bankruptcy judge ruled in June that Jones must liquidate his personal assets to settle a $1.5 billion debt to the families of the shooting victims, dismissing his bankruptcy proposal for his company FSS. Judge Christopher Lopez mandated the asset liquidation and rejected the proposal.