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Judge orders hearing to review Onion’s purchase of Alex Jones’s InfoWars (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” the judge, Christopher Lopez, said in an emergency hearing on Thursday afternoon. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”

Oh bullshit.

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Auctions are contracts, most of them are beholden to the highest bidder. I am guessing thr lawyers are either being paid to make media waves, or they didn't read the terms of the auction.

[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 34 points 10 months ago

The auction house specified that they will not necessarily accept only the highest bid