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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Christopher Knaus

Crikey lawyers call on Lachlan Murdoch to provide evidence he repudiated Fox News falsehoods

Lachlan Murdoch
Lachlan Murdoch’s lawyers are pressing for material about a Crikey marketing campaign they say leveraged its battle with Murdoch to gain subscribers. Photograph: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

Lawyers for Crikey are demanding the media mogul Lachlan Murdoch hand over documentary evidence showing he repudiated falsehoods aired on Fox News that Donald Trump lost the election due to electoral fraud, the federal court has heard.

Murdoch is suing Private Media, the publisher of Crikey, over an article published earlier this year that described the Murdoch family as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the attack on the US Capitol.

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