Lachlan Murdoch defamation case: Crikey article was ‘self-evidently hyperbolic’, publisher argues

Private Media says in court documents that no one' would read the words of the Crikey article literally

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A Crikey article which said the Murdoch family was an unindicted co-conspirator" in the January 6 riots was self-evidently hyperbolic", publisher Private Media has argued in court documents defending a defamation suit from Lachlan Murdoch and filed in the federal court.

Last month the co-chair of News Corp filed proceedings for defamation against the independent news site over an article by politics editor, Bernard Keane, headlined Trump is a confirmed unhinged traitor. And Murdoch is his unindicted co-conspirator".

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