The Onion’s acquisition of Alex Jones’ Infowars network was paused Thursday by a federal bankruptcy judge in Houston after attorneys for Jones and a company affiliated with him that bid $3.5 million complained about how the auction was conducted and how the publication’s bid was managed.

Jones was forced to put conspiracy-minded Infowars and other assets for sale after a judge ruled in June he had to pay roughly $1.5 billion in damages for claiming the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut was a hoax. For sale were Infowars’ website; social media accounts; studio in Austin, Texas; trademarks; video archive; and other assets.

The Onion, which planned to relaunch Infowars as a parody website, was named the winner of the bankruptcy auction held in Houston earlier Thursday.

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