Elon Musk Claims ‘Superior Ownership’ Over Alex Jones, Infowars X Accounts as The Onion Pursues Acquisition

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Elon Musk Claims ‘Superior Ownership’ Over Alex Jones, Infowars X Accounts as The Onion Pursues Acquisition

Elon Musk’s X

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to The Onion’s bid to purchase Alex Jones’ InfoWars out of bankruptcy, claiming it had “superior ownership” over the outlets’ X accounts.

The objection, filed Monday in a Texas bankruptcy court, attempts to block the parody news site from running Jones or InfoWars’ X accounts and objected to them being included in The Onion’s bid on Jones’ media operation. X’s lawyers pointed to the platform’s terms of service in its filing, saying any accounts were “exclusive property” of X and not its users.

X account holders simply own the content “they submit, post or display” on X, the filing claimed.

The company, as the owner of the platform, “grants each user a ‘personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and nonexclusive license to use the software provided,” the lawsuit added.

That means, according to X’s lawyers, the company should retain the InfoWars account, as well as ownership of Jones’ account, which has 3.3 million followers; a judge will be deciding whether Jones’ personal X account is included in any selloff tied to his bankruptcy.

X clarified it “does not object to the proposed ***** as a general matter,” merely the transfer of the social accounts as part of any deal.

Musk bought X, then known as

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, in 2022 for $44 billion. He reinstated Jones’ account, after he had been booted from the platform in 2018.

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earlier this month, but the deal has been held up in recent weeks. The outlet’s bid now hangs in the balance, with U.S. bankruptcy judge Christoper Lopez on Monday

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for December on whether the deal goes through.

Jones liquidated his assets and declared bankruptcy after he was ordered to pay a

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to the parents of children ******* in the Sandy ***** Elementary School mass *********.

Jones had said on his show that the 2012 Sandy ***** *********, in which 20 children were murdered, was “staged” by the government in order to grab guns.

“

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,” Jones said about the *********. He also called the parents “crisis actors” who were faking their grief.

He was later sued for defamation by a number of Sandy ***** families.

In a court deposition, Jones said he “

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” to the families with his comments. He also said the parents and the kids were now “being used to ******** the First Amendment.”

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