In a shocking turn of events, the Supreme Court of Texas has decided to weigh in on the heated debate over who gets to control the defunct conspiracy-laden website, Infowars. That's right, folks. The fate of the website that brought us such hard-hitting journalism as 'Are lizard people secretly running the government?' and 'Is the moon really made of cheese?' now rests in the hands of Texas' highest court.
The court has ordered Alex Jones' attorneys to respond to arguments filed by the Connecticut families he defamed when he called the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a government hoax. Yes, you heard that right. The same Alex Jones who once claimed that the government was putting chemicals in the water to turn frogs gay is now being held accountable for his words.
The families are asking the court to overrule an appellate court's order to pause collections, arguing that it was wrong. They've also accused Jones of misappropriating Infowars assets in the wake of its closure, taking the show's archives to a new website. In a bizarre twist, The Onion, a satirical media platform, attempted to purchase Infowars last year but was stopped by a federal bankruptcy court.
Earlier this year, The Onion tried to lease the Infowars' online domain, website, trademark and physical assets in a deal that would have kept the near-insolvent company afloat by injecting nearly $1 million and providing some funds to the defamed families. But Jones' attorneys successfully lobbied the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals to stop the takeover, arguing that a state District Court had erred in appointing a receiver for the company.
So there you have it, folks. The fate of Infowars now rests in the hands of the Supreme Court of Texas. Will they rule in favor of the Sandy Hook families and allow them to collect the nearly $1.5 billion in defamation judgments? Or will they side with Alex Jones and his attorneys, allowing him to continue spreading his unique brand of 'journalism' to the masses? Only time will tell.