Murdoch Scion Drops Suit Over Claim Fox Fueled Riot

April 21, 2023 Fake News, Fox News

Agence France-Presse reports:

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 fueling 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.

ABC News reports:



Media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s son filed the Crikey suit last August a day after executives at Crikey‘s publisher put their names to an ad in The New York Times inviting Lachlan Murdoch to sue to test the press freedom issue in court. Murdoch’s lawsuit targeted the publisher, Private Media, its then-managing editor Peter Fray, who was also the website’s editor-in-chief, and Crikey’s political editor, Bernard Keane.

Murdoch claimed he was defamed by Keane’s column about the U.S. congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol building which Crikey published in June last year under the headlines: “Trump is a confirmed unhinged traitor. And Murdoch is his unindicted co-conspirator.” Murdoch’s lawyer John Churchill said in a statement he had filed a notice of discontinuance in Federal Court on Friday.

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