Lachlan Murdoch threatened to sue the Australian news site Crikey over a column connecting him to rhetoric on Fox News ahead of the Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol. Crikey's response? Bring it on.
In response to those two lawsuits, Fox News said,"freedom of the press is foundational to our democracy and must be protected."
Though Lachlan returned to the fold, and once more helps to lead the family media empire, he moved with his wife and children back to Sydney during the pandemic. They still live there.In defending its coverage of unproven allegations of voter fraud involving Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic election technology companies, Fox Corp and Fox News have argued that the network was merely covering newsworthy, if false, claims made by then President Donald Trump and his allies.
His very first objection: the fact it said it relied on network"insiders." He noted that the six former Fox News staffers interviewed by the ABC included people who left as far back as 2016 and 2017, as well as its former politics editor, who was let go several months after the election. According to two people with knowledge of the matter, the complaint was rejected by the internal unit at the ABC that reviews outside objections.