Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch dropped a defamation case against an independent Australian publisher Friday, just days after Fox News ended its own defamation ordeal in the United States with a $787.5 million settlement.
SYDNEY — Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch dropped a defamation case against an independent Australian publisher Friday, just days after Fox NewsThe decision avoids what promised to be a public rehashing Down Under of the damaging claims made by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News in the United States, as the Australian news website Crikey and its parent company prepared to use documents from the American case in their defense.
“The fact is, Murdoch sued us, and then dropped his case,” Crikey’s parent company, Private Media, said in a statement posted to Twitter. “This is a substantial victory for legitimate public interest journalism. We stand by what we published last June, and everything we laid out in our defense to the court. The imputations drawn by Murdoch from that article were ridiculous.
Murdoch sued, claiming that Crikey was conducting “a campaign of self-promotion” to boost subscribers. “The case would have given some clarity about how this defense would have worked,” Rolph said. “We’ll never know what was going to happen, but now Lachlan Murdoch will never have to get into the witness box to give evidence.”offered an ironic contrast to Fox News’s own legal battle against Dominion in the United States, in which the company defended its journalists’ free speech rights. At the same time, Murdoch appeared to be attacking those same rights on the other side of the planet.
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