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Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch drops January 6 defamation case in Australia
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FOX CEO LACHLAN MURDOCH DROPS JANUARY 6 DEFAMATION CASE IN AUSTRALIA
published : 21 Apr 2023 at 10:45
writer: AFP
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A person walks past the Fox News Headquarters at the News Corporation building
in New York City
SYDNEY - Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch on Friday dropped a
high-profile defamation case against an Australian website that accused his
family's conservative media empire of fuelling the 2021 US Capitol riots.
Lawyers for the Crikey website said that Murdoch, the eldest son of billionaire
Rupert Murdoch, had abruptly "discontinued his defamation case" eight months
into legal proceedings.
Lachlan Murdoch sued Crikey for a series of articles that labelled Murdoch's
family and "poisonous" Fox News commentators as "unindicted co-conspirators" in
the January 6 post-US-election riots.
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The articles referenced Fox News's decision to amplify unfounded conspiracy
theories that the presidential election, won by Joe Biden, was stolen from the
then-incumbent Donald Trump.
Murdoch, with the support of a high-powered legal team, had widely been expected
to win the case and saddle the small independent publisher with ruinous legal
costs.
His abrupt decision to drop the lawsuit came just days after Fox News agreed to
pay $787.5 million to US firm Dominion for falsely claiming their election
voting machines were rigged.
Crikey had sought to introduce evidence relating to the Dominion case to help
its defence, a potentially problematic development for Murdoch.
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The US case was both costly and deeply embarrassing for Fox, exposing internal
messages that showed the network knew fraud claims by Trump and his surrogates
were untrue.
The Dominion case was settled before trial, and before any of the Murdoch family
or Fox hosts Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson were forced to testify in open
court.
Fox News still faces a separate $2.7 billion lawsuit from another electronic
voting company -- Smartmatic -- which claims that the right-wing network
broadcast lies that "decimated" its business prospects.
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Murdoch's Australian lawyers on Friday insisted there was "no truth" to Crikey's
allegations, but said 92-year-old Rupert's heir apparent had decided to drop the
case anyway.
"(Lachlan) Murdoch remains confident that the court would ultimately find in his
favour," lawyer John Churchill said.
"However, he does not wish to further enable Crikey's use of the court to
litigate a case from another jurisdiction that has already been settled and
facilitate a marketing campaign designed to attract subscribers."
Crikey, an often pugilistic left-leaning news site, had repeatedly dared Murdoch
to sue them over the articles, and launched fundraising and subscription drives
off the back of the legal action.
Crikey, and its parent company Private Media, appeared to have been blindsided
by the case's abrupt end.
"We won. Thank you to all of @crikey_news team, our wider staff, our legal team
at @marquelawyers, all our subs and everyone who contributed to the campaign,"
Private Media CEO Will Hayward tweeted.
His lawyers said Crikey would seek to recoup legal costs.
The Murdoch family remains a major media player in Rupert's native Australia,
despite his decades-old focus on global expansion into the United States and
Britain.
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