
Lachlan Murdoch has dropped a defamation lawsuit against Australian news outlet Crikey which called him an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Jan 6 US Capitol insurrection.
Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son, who is chief executive of Fox Corp, dropped his action days after the company settled a US case with a $787.5m payout said to be the largest of its kind in history. Fox News settled a defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems that highlighted several instances of conspiracy theories that the conservative news network had aired during and after the 2020 US presidential election.