The sale ends Alex Jones’s control over his website, which promoted false claims, including the assertion that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “hoax.”

Infowars was up for auction to help cover the $1.5 billion conspiracy theorist Alex Jones owes for defaming the families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting victims.

As the outlandish nature of his false claims grew, so did his media empire, with annual revenues of up to $80 million, and a fanbase that at his height listened to him on more than 100 radio