The Onion's rejected purchase of Infowars in an auction bid supported by families of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting dealt them a new setback Wednesday and clouded the future of Alex Jones' conspiracy theory platform,

A federal judge put a halt to the sale of Alex Jones' Infowars platform to Sandy Hook families and The Onion. Here's what we know about the failed deal.

Losses in court cases over Jones’s claim that the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax resulted in his media company’s being put up for auction.