I just think this lacked transparency,” Lopez said. “It was confusing, and it was understandably a little confusing.” Lopez said he didn’t necessarily believe there was anything wrong with the joint bid from Global Tetrahedron – the company behind The Onion – and the families of Sandy Hook mass shooting victims,

A judge late Tuesday night said he would not approve the sale of Infowars, the website founded by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, to the Chicago-based satirical publication The Onion, prolonging a messy tug of war between two high-profile suitors.

A federal judge on Tuesday issued a ruling rejecting the sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to the satirical website The Onion, claiming a recent bankruptcy auction was problematic.