the onions attempt to buy Alex Jones’s media Empire Infowars just got a bit more complicated the bid is now under review by a federal judge following complaints from Jones and his lawyers the onion was named the winning bidder of the bankruptcy auction and it was backed by the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims they were awarded nearly $1.5 billion in legal damages after Jones falsely claimed the shooting was a hoax the families decided uh they would effectively join our bid back our bid by the end of the day it was us or Alex Jones that’s who could either continue this website unabated basically unpunished for what he’s uh done to these families over the years or we can make a dumb stupid website and we decided to do the second thing a hearing is expected to be held next week on how the auction was conducted and how the onions bid was put together in the meantime Infowars was back up and running Friday for reasons that weren’t entirely clear