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Lachlan Murdoch Goes to War With Website Blaming Him for Jan. 6<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p><strong><em>This reporting appears in this week’s edition of </em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article"><em>Confider</em></a><em>, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe </em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article"><em>here</em></a><em> and send your questions, tips, and complaints <a href="mailto:confider@thedailybeast.com">here</a>.</em></strong></p> <p>Fox Corp mogul Lachlan Murdoch may be using his immense powers to threaten Crikey, a decades-old Australian political news website, but the small outlet is not backing down at all. </p> <p>The notoriously thin-skinned eldest Murdoch son fired off a series of legal threats to Crikey, the <em>Sydney Morning Herald </em><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/lachlan-murdoch-sends-legal-threat-to-crikey-over-january-6-article-20220813-p5b9ll.html">reported</a>, over an <a href="https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/06/29/january-six-hearing-donald-trump-comfirmed-unhinged-traitor/">absolutely scathing</a> June 29 article, pointedly headlined: “Trump is a confirmed unhinged traitor. And Murdoch is his unindicted co-conspirator.” </p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/lachlan-murdoch-goes-to-war-with-website-blaming-him-for-jan-6?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p> <p>Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tips">here</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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This reporting appears in this week’s edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.

Fox Corp mogul Lachlan Murdoch may be using his immense powers to threaten Crikey, a decades-old Australian political news website, but the small outlet is not backing down at all.

The notoriously thin-skinned eldest Murdoch son fired off a series of legal threats to Crikey, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, over an absolutely scathing June 29 article, pointedly headlined: “Trump is a confirmed unhinged traitor. And Murdoch is his unindicted co-conspirator.”

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