The judge overseeing the sale of Alex Jones' Infowars ordered a hearing to review the auction process and a motion to block the Onion's bid.

The Infowars accounts had been given a lifetime ban on X in 2018 prior to Musk buying the company in 2022, only for X to reinstall a number of accounts under what he claims is his free speech absolutism. Musk said he disagreed with much of what Jones’ claimed over the years, but that wasn’t the issue.

Another legal complication may have surfaced in The Onion’s bid to buy the Infowars empire from bankrupt conspiracy media mogul Alex Jones. X filed a limited objection to the transfer of Infowars’ X accounts to the satirical media empire in a federal Bankruptcy Court on Monday.