Musk Flexes Muscle to Stop Infowars’ X Account Sale to The Onion

A clash among lawyers from Elon Musk’s X Corp., Alex Jones’ Infowars, and The Onion would normally be enough to pack a courtroom.

But the question each will debate before a Texas bankruptcy judge Monday rises to another level: Who really owns the rights to a social media handle?

Asking to intervene in the liquidation of Infowars, X wants Judge Christopher M. Lopez to block the transfer of any Jones- or Infowars-associated accounts on its platform to The Onion’s corporate parent, Global Tetrahedron LLC, which last month won the auction for the right-wing conspiracy news platform’s assets.

“Notwithstanding all ...