Lachlan Murdoch’s legal team loses bid to have parts of Crikey’s defamation defence dismissed

Australian independent publisher's application to strike out parts of Murdoch's reply also failed ahead of defamation trial

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Lachlan Murdoch's application to have parts of Crikey's defence about Fox News's role in the January 6 riot dismissed has failed in a pre-trial hearing in the federal court.

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

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