At an emergency hearing this week, lawyers for the social media company appeared. They haven’t explained why.
  • demizerone@lemmy.world
    991·
    13 hours ago

    Back about 25 years ago Jones was very anti fascist. Wonder what happened to completely ignore the actual fascists. Probably money from the fascists.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    133·
    15 hours ago

    The attorneys for Twitter asked to be included on any further information in the case? You’re allowed to just do that? Can I go into a courtroom and demand to be included in any for the communication and all relevant further information in a case? Are they taking Jones on as a client? I’m confused how they have legal standing to do this.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      781·
      14 hours ago

      If I were to guess, and question the existance of standing, my bet is musk was a bidder when infowars was put for sale. My guess is possibly the families themselves objected and asked the court to take a lower bid, that would do what they actually cared about (Create counter messaging to his blowhard conspiracy theories).

      • thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
        12·
        4 hours ago

        Quotes from the article:

        According to Bloomberg, Murray told Lopez that Global Tetrahedron’s bid was a better option because the Sandy Hook families agreed to waive some of the money owed to them in order to pay off Jones’ other creditors. “I’ve always thought my goal was to maximize the recovery for unsecured creditors,” Murray said, per Bloomberg. “And under one bid, they’re clearly better than they were under the other.”

        and

        The only other bid besides the Onion’s was $3.5 million from First United American Companies LLC, the company that operates Jones’ online supplement store.

      • wagesj45@fedia.io
        19·
        11 hours ago

        I figured it had to do with the sale of the @realAlexJones twitter handle that was being disputed. I cant remember if that had been settled or not, but I know he was trying to keep it, and the opposing side said it was a business account and should be turned over.

        • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 hours ago

          That makes sense. Twitter currently reserves the right to decide who gets what handle so court orders saying otherwise would likely ruffle their feathers.

        • Lemminary@lemmy.world
          41·
          10 hours ago

          I was born cynical but him making a fuss has other motives but I’m not that clever. Is he trying to become a martyr? He spends thousands per moth, he can afford another set, no? He has hidden money everywhere.

          • wagesj45@fedia.io
            7·
            6 hours ago

            He owes a billion dollars. Infowars isn’t worth near that much. Even after the sell, he’ll continue oweing hundreds of millions of dollars until the day he dies.

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
      4·
      10 hours ago

      You can go into a courtroom, no one can stop you from trying. And if Twitter’s attorneys want to represent Jones, they can certainly do so, in which case they will be included on future communication.

      A large percent of legal proceedings are not kept secret, so if the lawyers are not representing him and they are trying to make a big deal out of the fact that they want to get informed, actually they’re just grandstanding and there’s nothing to see here. Probably that’s what’s happening.