Discontinuation of defamation proceedings against Crikey was no less remarkable than the decision to sue the minnow publisher
, and the parlous state of American democracy, Keane opined that ‘the Murdochs and their slew of poisonous Fox News commentators are the unindicted co-conspirators of this continuing crisis’. Murdoch identified 14 defamatory imputations that he said arose out of Keane’s article. The central imputation was said to be that Murdoch had ‘illegally conspired with Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election result’.The bringing of the proceedings was surprising enough.
On Wednesday, Dominion and Fox settled their dispute in the US. As with most commercial settlements of litigation, the parties compromised. Fox agreed to pay Dominion $US787.5m , about half the amount Dominion had claimed. Fox acknowledged that it had aired falsehoods about Dominion, well short of the admissions Dominion was seeking.
It can hardly have come as a shock that developments in the litigation in which Fox was a defendant in the US – developments that were themselves foreseeable – might provide fodder in the case in which Murdoch was a plaintiff in Australia.
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