A federal judge in Texas on Friday ordered the liquidation of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones personal assets and was still deciding on his companys separate bankruptcy case.
The decision could determine the future of his rightwing and conspiracy theory-laden Infowars media platform, as Jones owes $1.5bn for his false claims that the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 was a hoax.
Judge Christopher Lopez approved converting Joness proposed personal bankruptcy reorganization to a liquidation. He was still set to rule on whether Joness company, Free Speech Systems, based in Austin, Texas, also should be liquidated.
It was not immediately clear what will happen to Free Speech Systems, which is Infowars …
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