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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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