Lachlan Murdoch withdraws defamation lawsuit against Crikey after Dominion settlement.

Lachlan Murdoch, CEO of Fox Corporation, dropped his defamation suit against Australian publisher Private Media, which owns news website Crikey, two days after his company settled a libel suit against them. Murdoch sued Private Media in August over an opinion piece published by Crikey that linked the Murdoch family to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Murdoch's lawyer said Crikey intended to exploit the outcome of the Fox-Dominion defamation case in the U.S. The Dominion case was settled on Tuesday for $787.5 million just as a trial was about to begin.