By DAVE COLLINS A federal judge in Texas rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet, criticizing the bidding for the conspiracy theory platform as

A federal judge put a halt to the sale of Alex Jones' Infowars platform to Sandy Hook families and The Onion. Here's what we know about the failed deal.

Losses in court cases over Jones’s claim that the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax resulted in his media company’s being put up for auction.