Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of Fox Corp. and eldest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has abandoned a defamation lawsuit against an Australian news publisher who called his family an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Jan.6 Capitol riot.
, the chief executive of Fox Corp. and eldest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has abandoned a defamation lawsuit against an Australian news publisher, his attorney confirmed.
Murdoch, 51, made his first legal threat against the independent news site Crikey in August, two months after it published an opinion article calling his family an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. On Friday morning local time, however, Murdoch’s team filed a notice to discontinue the case in federal court.
“It is a matter of public record that Crikey admits that there is no truth to the imputations that were made about Mr Murdoch in the article,” Churchill said.Murdoch “is using the law to silence public debate,” Fray toldAustralia reported on Friday that Private Media had been “blindsided” by the development, and is likely to demand damages from Murdoch.
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