In what legal experts say is unprecedented, Elon Musk’s dead-named Twitter has refused to confirm that it will turn over the social media accounts for Jones’s Infowars businesses, including the companies linked to Jones’s diet supplement sales, CNN reports. Musk’s attorneys argue that according to the platform’s terms of service, accounts cannot be sold and remain the property of Twitter–whose Twitter handle was sold to Musk along with the rest of the assets of the company when he bought them.
All Infowars assets were sold to the parent company of the satire site The Onion, which was backed by some of the Sandy Hook parents to whom Jones owes hundreds of millions of dollars. They bought the company in a bankruptcy sale, coming in as a dark horse in the auction to take the company from Jones backers who were going to allow Jones to continue to broadcast. An alleged appointee in the incoming administration, Musk’s company would be leveraging a previously unchallenged ability of the court to decide what property can and cannot be seized in a bankruptcy.