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Lachlan Murdoch Drops Defamation Suit Against Australian News Site Crikey
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Fox Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lachlan Murdoch dropped a defamation lawsuit he filed last August against an Australian news site over a piece it published about him and the effort to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.
The notice of discontinuance of the suit against Private Media, which publishes the news site Crikey, comes three days after Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a suit alleging it defamed Dominion Voting Systems Inc. by airing claims the company rigged the election. The notice was filed on Friday with the Federal Court of Australia.