Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is seeking to protect his personal social media accounts from being sold in the upcoming auction of his Infowars media platform to pay more than $1 billion he owes relatives of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, claiming selling those accounts would violate his privacy and deny him a chance to make a fresh start after bankruptcy.
The trustee overseeing the liquidation and selloff of the assets of Infowars and its parent company Free Speech Systems, asked a federal judge on Friday to include the social media accounts as part of the auctions scheduled for November and December. The judge delayed a decision on the matter for at least a week.
Jones’ lawyers argue the personal media accounts that use his real name are not owned by Infowars or FSS, but are controlled by him personally, and should be considered part of his “persona” that cannot be owned by someone other than himself.
Fuck this guy.
But his personal social media account? What the fuck is that
The issue he’s gone and pulled to Donald Trump or Elon Musk. He’s decided that he will use his personal accounts to announce things to do with his “company”. This has become a big problem because people have got to the point where they follow his personal accounts to find out what his company is doing because his company accounts don’t post too much.
So he’s done this to himself. He’s made his personal persona inexorably interlinked with his business persona. At the time I’m sure he thought this was a great idea since both personas are utter dipshits.