Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ‘ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions to help pay the more than $US1 billion ($A1.5 billion) he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, following a US court ruling.

Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston said during a court hearing on Tuesday (local time) that he would approve the auctions that start in November.

But the judge said he first must change a previous order to make it clear that the trustee overseeing Jones’ personal bankruptcy case controlled all the assets of Infowars parent company Free Speech Systems, which is owned 100 per cent by Jones.

Despite the pending loss of his company, Jones vows to continue his talk shows through other means, possibly including a website and his personal social media accounts.

He also has suggested that Infowars’ assets could be bought by his supporters to allow him to continue hosting his show as an employee under the Infowars brand in their home city of Austin, Texas.

“It’s very cut and dry that the assets of Free Speech Systems, the website, the equipment, the shopping cart, all that, can be sold,” Jones said on a recent show.

“They know full well that there are a bunch of patriot buyers, and then the operation can ease on.”

Jones and his company both filed for bankruptcy protection in 2022 – the same year Sandy Hook families won nearly $US1.5 billion in defamation and emotional distress lawsuits for his repeatedly calling the 2012 school shooting a hoax staged by “crisis actors” to get more gun control legislation passed. Twenty first-graders and six educators were killed in the Newtown, Connecticut shooting.

During two civil trials in Texas and Connecticut, parents and children of many of the victims testified that they were traumatised by Jones’ hoax conspiracies and his followers’ actions.

Jones is appealing the civil jury verdicts, citing free speech rights and questioning whether the families proved any connection between his comments, and the people who harassed and threatened the relatives. He has since acknowledged that the shooting did happen.

The sell-off order would put Infowars’ intellectual property up for auction on November 13, including its trademarks, copyrighted material, social media accounts and websites. Jones’ personal social media sites, including his account on the social platform X, which has 2.8 million followers, would not be included.

However, the trustee overseeing Jones’ bankruptcy case, Christopher Murray, said he may seek court permission to also liquidate Jones’ personal social media accounts and his other intellectual property.

Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, said the judge’s signing of the auction order would be “a significant step forward” in the family’s efforts to make Jones pay for his hoax lies.

“Alex Jones will no longer own or control the company he built,” Mattei said.

“This brings the families closer to their goal of holding him accountable for the harm he has caused.”