Alex Jones Bankruptcy Trustee Aims to Sell Social Media Accounts

The trustee overseeing the liquidation of Alex Jones’ assets has sought bankruptcy court approval to sell the right-wing provocateur’s personal social media accounts, plus his book and video game rights.

Jones’ 16 social media accounts, book rights to “The Great Reset: And the War for the World,” and the video game “Alex Jones: NOW Wars,” should be added to an ongoing sale process for Jones’ Infowars media empire, trustee Christopher Murray told the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in a motion Tuesday.

The trustee is tasked with liquidating Jones’ estate and that of Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, to help pay down nearly $1.5 billion in defamation judgments related to statements Jones made calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.

Murray in September was given the green light by a Houston bankruptcy court to start auctioning off the property for Jones’ Infowars media platform, including Infowars’ intellectual property and studio production equipment, according to the auctioneer website.

Murray has said Jones’ personal IP had attracted interest from potential bidders, and that adding it to the Infowars assets already on sale will increase recoveries. Meanwhile, an auctioneer for the Infowars assets already up for sale has said there’s been a large volume of inquiries, ranging from media companies to supplement and other e-commerce businesses, and general investors.

“The Trustee and his advisors have received interest from multiple parties in purchasing the Social Media Accounts in particular,” the trustee said Tuesday.

Jones’ social media accounts that could go up for sale include his account on X, previously known as Twitter, as well as accounts on Gab, Telegram, and former President Donald Trump’s social media company Truth Social.

Jones Likely to Fight Sale

Jones maintains that his personal social media accounts aren’t property of the bankruptcy estate and can’t be sold, his bankruptcy lawyer, Vickie Driver of Elliott, Thomason & Gibson LLP, told Bloomberg Law via email on Wednesday.

“They are unalienable personal property that cannot be unwound from his name, image, and likeness,” Driver said. “Further, the contracts with the social media companies do not allow for anyone other than Mr. Jones to operate his personal accounts, and any third party doing so would violate the terms and conditions for such accounts, opening them up to liability.”

In a video Jones posted onto his X account on Wednesday, he said he plans to launch the “Alex Jones Network” in response to the potential closure of Infowars on Nov. 13, the auction date for the Infowars assets.

“My guests, myself, my crew are the info-war,” Jones said. “The info-war goes on no matter what happens to a website, or a shopping cart, or this equipment.”

Murray said he’s only seeking to sell the estate’s interests in the social media accounts, but not license the use of Jones’ persona or force him to post content on the accounts, according to the motion. The social media accounts are “primarily” used by Jones to promote the Infowars broadcasts and brand, his books, and video game, and therefore are integral to Free Speech Systems business, the trustee said.

“Alex Jones’ Social Media Accounts are not the ordinary accounts of a private citizen, and the sale of the Jones bankruptcy estate’s interests in the Social Media Accounts does not require Alex Jones to perform any personal services that would otherwise violate the 13th Amendment,” the trustee’s motion said.

The liquidation comes after the bankruptcy court in June converted Jones’ personal Chapter 11 into a Chapter 7, and tossed out Free Speech Systems’ separate bankruptcy, allowing the Sandy Hook victims’ families and others to pursue their judgments in state courts.

The Chapter 7 trustee is represented by Jones Murray LLP and Porter Hedges LLP.

The case is Alexander E. Jones and Official Committee Of Unsecured Creditors, Bankr. S.D. Tex., No. 22-33553, emergency motion 10/15/24.