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ZeroCool@vger.social to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Alex Jones' Infowars and liquidate assets

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Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Alex Jones' Infowars and liquidate assets

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ZeroCool@vger.social to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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The plan includes liquidating assets to help pay the $1.5 billion Alex Jones owes for calling the Sandy Hook shooting a hoax.
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    Ended, the info wars have

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      Yep and info won! 🥳

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        I fought the info and the info won

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          Maybe one day we’ll learn to stop waging wars on nouns, the nouns keep winning.

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      deleted by creator

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        :)

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    It’s nice to see these small victories against disinformation engines such as Alex Jones.

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      You’re not FlyingSquid.

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        No, I’m Riccosuave 🫡

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          And you’re doing your part 🫡

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      I’ll sue.

      You didn’t even do it right.

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        You didn’t even do it right.

        I prefer to think of it as a visual meme collage that shows a before and after shot.

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          I’ll allow it.

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    This is wonderful news, can’t wait to hear what Dan and Jordan from Knowledge Fight move onto next

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      Alex will make a new platform.

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        That is highly likely what Jones will do, unfortunately.

        As well as hide his income behind all kinds of shell corporations

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          The shell corps don’t protect in this case

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            Yeah they do. The fact that the company structure is deliberately set up to hide who owns what is one of the main impediments to carrying out the sentence.

            They can’t take something that belongs to a shell corp that he’s not listed as the sole owner of until they prove that he de facto is, and a lot of it is registered in his parents’ name for that exact fraudulent purpose.

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            I’m saying for his next disinformation show

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          Have you seen how dumb his shell companies are? Like how he says on air he’s shipping his product to his dad’s warehouse but that are totally not related companies

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        He’ll join Cucker Tarlson and Melon Tusk on Telegram and Xitter.

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    :woot: !! Every step closer to poverty is a victory!

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    His organs have some value too right? I mean not much I admit. But sell his kidneys and liver.

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      and liver.

      Nah his liver’s gotta be worthless. If you listen to the Knowledge Fight podcast (which does a great job of debunking Alex and Infowars) you’ll notice pretty quickly that Alex clearly hasn’t been sober for more than 24 hours at a time in years. He’s a raging alcoholic.

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        I’m sure some research scientist somewhere would offer $0.25 for it.

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          Unfortunately there are hundreds of thousands of them in that condition…

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      Username checks out.

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    I love this song!

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    Not going to achieve anything. Everything has already been moved to banned.video under a new name. All income goes to his dad’s business too, so again, not impacted

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