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I wanna know how much they spent on this joke. At the end of the day all they bought was a URL right?
Variety:
So like also some cameras, contact lists, trademarks etc.
The real thing they bought was assurance nobody else could buy it. Especially those customer lists. Lists like that built the modern Right.
NYT says less than $3.5M, which is really not very much.
infowars is a trademark. the auction covers all his accounts and anything related to the brand as far as i know
They get all the assets like the studio and the fake boner pill business
I think also a bunch of IP?
they bought all the IP, immedatly after the sale he pireted all of the videos over to his new website and also called his show the same thing as the show name the Onion bought, so there is a decent chance a lawsuit will go up to stop that
Fuck yes! AI Alex Jones vs fake Alex Jones! Let's GO
They finally designed AI slop I will consume