A Texas judge halted The Onion's successful bid for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars network due to concerns regarding the process of bidding.

Here are some things to know about how Jones' misinformation empire ended up on the auction block. Fresh out of high school in the early 1990s, Jones, a barrel-chested, gravelly voiced Texas native, started broadcasting on a public-access television channel in the state capital.

The sale ends Jones’s 25-year run controlling the conspiracy theorist website that peddled claims the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “hoax.”