A federal judge said Monday he may hold an evidentiary hearing next month to help determine whether to approve the sale of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' media company to satirical publication The Onion.
"Firing folks a week before Thanksgiving is not what we do, but it sounds like that's not what occurred," Lopez said.
He said he may decide to approve the sale, order another auction or hold additional hearings.
Collins also wrote that the Onion plans to relaunch Infowars as "the dumbest website on the internet."
In announcing the sale, the Onion put out a news release written in the voice of a satirical CEO of Global Tetrahedron, the publication's Chicago-based parent company.
Infowars was briefly shut down after the sale was announced before it resumed operating with Jones, who claimed the site was "hijacked.".
Jones described the auction process as "fraudulent," but told his audience that regardless of what happens with Infowars, he won't be silenced. »
