Lachlan Murdoch has threatened online news website Crikey with legal action over an article that suggested he and his media mogul father Rupert Murdoch were responsible for the riots at the US Capitol in January. | zoesam93
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published blistering editorials about Trump’s actions concerning the January 6 riot, where at least seven people had lost their lives.Last December, the select committee investigating the riot revealed that Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Brian Kilmeade urged a senior Trump aide to get the president to act against the riot.
Rupert Murdoch, who is not an Australian citizen, is widely known not to sue for defamation. However, Lachlan Murdoch is more litigious and this is not the first time he has demanded an apology fromdeleted an article by its founder Stephen Mayne, which made claims about Murdoch’s tenure as a board member of Channel Ten.
In 2012, Lachlan Murdoch’s settled a defamation case against Fairfax Media, the previous publisher of this masthead, over an article that ran inCBD column about his alleged use of News Corp’s corporate jet. He donated the $50,000 settlement to charity. Murdoch, who is the CEO of Fox Corp and a non-executive chairman of News Corporation, is facing two major lawsuits in the US from voting machine companies that are seeking billions of dollars in damages over claims that Fox News’ lies about the 2020 election destroyed their businesses.
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