The judge criticized the auction process as flawed and said the outcome "left a lot of money on the table" for Sandy Hook families.

Alex Jones was forced to sell the platform to help pay the roughly $1.5 billion in damages he owes families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which he called a “hoax.”

A federal judge cited an unfair auction process in a ruling that blocked a bid from The Onion and Connecticut families to buy Alex Jones' Infowars.