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Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of Fox Corp. and eldest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has abandoned a defamation lawsuit against an Australian news publisher, his attorney confirmed.
The move comes just two days after Fox News settled a separate defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems for $787 million, well under the $1.6 billion the election technology company had originally sought.
Murdoch, 51, made his first legal threat against the independent news site Crikey in August, two months after it published an opinion article calling his family an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.