“I Think Lachlan’s Trying to Peter Thiel Crikey”: Inside a Scrappy Australian News Site’s War With the Murdochs

The biggest thorns in the sides of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch right now are the billion-dollar-plus defamation lawsuits that Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic are pursuing against the Murdochs’ most powerful American media outlet, Fox News. They’re dealing with a different sort of legal agita in their native Australia, or at least Lachlan is, setting the stage for high-stakes courtroom battles in the months to come. The two imbroglios have about 10,000 miles between them, but they also have parallels: The Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits involve unfounded claims, aired on Fox News, that the companies’ voting machines helped Joe Biden… Read Full Article