Fox Corp. chief executive Lachlan Murdoch on Friday dropped his defamation lawsuit against Australian news website Crikey, citing the settlement of the separate U.S. case where Fox News agreed to pay almost $800 million over its lies involving the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s son filed the Crikey suit last August a…
Fox News CEO and News Corp co-chair Lachlan Murdoch has dropped a defamation lawsuit against Australian publisher Crikey, days after Fox agreed to pay $1.2 billion to avoid a US trial about false vote-rigging claims in the 2020 presidential election.