Leftists Look to Buy Infowars, turn it Into Insurrectionist Brand

The insurrectionist left is looking to purchase InfoWars, the media empire built by Alex Jones, who must now sell off his assets after an unjust lawsuit in which Jones was never allowed to make a credible defense against the charges. The court awarded the parents of the victims of Sandy Hook $1.5 billion, an amount that openly violates the 8^th amendment, making cruel and unusual punishment unconstitutional.

Alex Jones’s Enemies Want to Buy InfoWars at Auction and Bastardize It With Leftist Propaganda | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Last month, a bankruptcy judge ruled that the company must be liquidated and auctioned in order to help pay the unprecedented $1.5 billion judgement against him for defaming the families of the Sandy Hook massacre.

According to a report from Semafor, several media outlets, including Media Matters for America, are reportedly looking into bidding for the company just so they can bastardize it for their own purposes.

The report states:

The open auction has sparked some serious behind-the-scenes interest among liberal groups and some nonprofit organizations dedicated to fighting misinformation, who see it as an opportunity to transform an infamous source of online hatred, conspiracies, and oddities into something quite different.

Angelo Carusone, the president of the left-leaning conservative media watchdog group Media Matters for America, confirmed that the organization would explore bidding on InfoWars.“We are diligently considering this acquisition,” he said in an email.

Carusone said that in addition to taking control of the brand’s eponymous digital channels, he was equally interested in what InfoWars hasn’t published, and wondered if the archives could contain some interesting revelations.

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Other left-leaning media players closer to home also see an opportunity. Jeff Rotkoff, the publisher of the new Texas-focused digital publication The Barbed Wire, told Semafor that although he isn’t currently in a position to buy the Austin-based company outright, he was having conversations with people in his network and was seriously considering how the site could partner with other interests or publishers to get in on the bidding.

In a brief telephone conversation this week, Rotkoff, who is also the Texas state director of Democratic-aligned super PAC Forward Majority, said that he remembers being baffled while watching Jones on local television decades ago when he was in college in Texas.

A third current executive at a left-leaning media company said they’d looked into it this week, and an adviser to several progressive nonprofit news organizations said they are speaking with big donors about placing a bid or launching a crowdfunding campaign.

Several misinformation-focused news executives who were previously unaware of the InfoWars auction before Semafor reached out expressed interest in acquiring some of its assets or buying it outright.