The satirical publication acquired the extreme-right, Sandy Hook-denying InfoWars during an auction of Jones’s assets, and will use it to parody its sanity-challenged conspiracy claims.

We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” Judge Christopher Lopez said.

A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas has ordered a hearing into how the satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars, after Jones and his lawyers raised questions about how a bankruptcy auction was conducted.