But Onion CEO Ben Collins countered this in an update posted on Bluesky and X on Saturday, writing, “We left the hearing with clear next steps to complete the sale.” According to Collins, a court date has been set for a week from Monday,

A federal bankruptcy judge paused the satirical news outlet The Onion’s winning bid of Infowars’ media platform to review the auction after owner Alex Jones and his lawyers complained about how the process was handled.

A federal bankruptcy judge put The Onion‘s winning bid for Alex Jones’s InfoWars media platform on pause to further review the bankruptcy-auction process after Jones and his lawyers claimed the auction was improperly conducted.