Elon Musk’s X is trying to block the transfer of the platform’s InfoWars accounts to the Onion after filing a legal objection stating that it owns

X trying to block transfer of platform’s InfoWars accounts to the Onion

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2024-11-27 19:00:07

Elon Musk’s X is trying to block the transfer of the platform’s InfoWars accounts to the Onion after filing a legal objection stating that it owns users’ accounts.

The social network has filed a “limited objection” to the sale of InfoWars, a media platform run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, to the satirical news outlet the Onion.

Although X said it did not oppose the sale as a “general matter”, it is arguing that its users do not own their accounts and cannot sell or transfer them without its permission.

“X Corp.’s TOS [terms of service] make clear that it owns the X Accounts, as the TOS is explicit that X Corp. merely grants its users a non-exclusive license to use their accounts,” the company wrote in a filing to a federal court in Texas.

InfoWars was put up for sale at bankruptcy auction after Jones was ordered by court judgments to pay $1.5bn to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre due to false claims he made about the mass shooting being a “hoax”.

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