The Onion's rejected purchase of Infowars in an auction bid supported by families of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting dealt them a new setback Wednesday and clouded the future of Alex Jones' conspiracy theory platform,

NEW YORK ‒ A U.S. judge on Tuesday stopped parody news site The Onion from buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars website, ruling that a bankruptcy auction did not result in the best possible bids.

Alex Jones’ Infowars was up for sale as part of his bankruptcy case amid money courts are ordering him to pay for falsely claiming that the deadly Sandy Hook Elementary shooting was a hoax.