Australian News Site Tells Lachlan Murdoch: Sue Us Already

Murdoch has accused a small Australian news site of defaming him in a column that claimed links between the Murdoch family and the Capitol riot.

On Monday, the news organization said that they were going to file a lawsuit.

An independent website that has chronicled Australian politics and media for more than two decades vowed to fight Mr. Murdoch's legal threats. He had received correspondence from his lawyer.

In an open letter published online and in advertisements that ran in New York and Australia, the chairman of the parent company said that they wanted to defend the accusations in court.

The executive said that the letters were published to highlight the actions of a powerful media owner who used Australia's defamation laws to silence a small publisher.

A person for Mr. Murdoch refused to speak.

The opinion article was published in the middle of the House committee hearings into the Jan 6 attack. The article said that Trump is a traitor. Murdoch is not indicted.

The conclusion of the opinion article was that the Murdochs and their Fox News commentators are the unindicted co-conspirators of the ongoing crisis.

The headline was not specified to which Murdoch was referring. Murdoch is the executive chairman of News Corp, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, and the chairman of Fox Corp, which broadcasts Fox News. Two voting machine companies are accusing Fox News of airing false claims about their machines in order to get them to stop using them. The First Amendment protects Fox, according to the legal team.

The article was taken down after Murdoch made his first legal threat. According to legal correspondence, Crikey offered to post an editorial clarifying that Murdoch was not directly involved in the events of January 6. The offer was turned down.

The article was re-posted in order to clarify recent media reports about a legal threat.

The defamation capital of the world is Australia. Publishers in Australia are more likely to be sued in Australia than in the US because of the First Amendment.

There have been legal tangles between the publisher and Murdoch. The article contained false claims about Murdoch's time on the TV network. The publisher paid both Mr. Murdoch and the person who made the complaint.