Lachlan Murdoch Drops Defamation Claim Against Australian News Site Following Dominion Settlement
deadline.comFox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch is dropping his defamation claimagainst Australian news site Crikey over a column that connected him to the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
In a statement, Murdoch’s attorney, John Churchill, cited the recent settlement of Dominion’s lawsuit against Fox Corp. and Fox News in dropping the litigation.
In the proceedings, which might not have started until next year, Crikey was poised to introduce material gathered during the discovery process in the Dominion suit, in which Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle the claim and avoid a trial. “It’s 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. “In their latest attempt to change their defense strategy, Crikey has tried to introduce thousands of pages of documents from a defamation case from another jurisdiction, which has now settled.” The defamation claim was over a June 29, 2022, analysis piece that identified the Murdochs as “unindicted co-conspirators” in the January 6th attacks on the Capitol.
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