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David Folkenflik

An Australian news site dared Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch to sue. Now he has

Lachlan Murdoch, co-chairman of 21st Century Fox, is pictured in Idaho in 2017. He's now sued an Australian news site for defamation. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch is suing the owner of a small Australian political news site for defamation over a column that held him responsible for the rhetoric on Fox News ahead of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol last year.

The lawsuit came just a day after the website, Crikey — in full page ads in The New York Times and Australia's Canberra Times — dared Murdoch to make good on his earlier threats to sue.

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