Lachlan Murdoch has paid $840,000 in authorized prices to a small Australian writer after he dropped a defamation lawsuit accusing the corporate of linking his household to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, his lawyer mentioned on Tuesday.

Mr. Murdoch’s lawyer, John Churchill, mentioned in a press release that Mr. Murdoch, the chief govt of Fox Corporation, mentioned the cost lined the entire prices that Private Media, the writer of the news web site Crikey, confronted due to the libel case he had introduced in opposition to the corporate. The quantity equates to about 1.3 million in Australian {dollars}.

Mr. Murdoch dropped the lawsuit in April, two days after Fox News settled a separate defamation lawsuit filed within the United States by Dominion Voting Systems, an election expertise firm, for $787.5 million.

Mr. Churchill mentioned within the assertion on Tuesday that Mr. Murdoch remained assured {that a} courtroom would have dominated in his favor, however he discontinued the swimsuit as a result of he didn’t wish to “facilitate a marketing campaign designed to attract subscribers and boost their profits.”

Mr. Murdoch sued Crikey final August over an opinion column with the headline: “Trump is a confirmed unhinged traitor. And Murdoch is his unindicted co-conspirator.” The column didn’t specify whether or not it was referring to Mr. Murdoch or his father, Rupert Murdoch. The article argued that the Murdochs and Fox News commentators had been culpable for the 2021 revolt on the Capitol by pushing false claims of voter fraud within the 2020 presidential election.

The libel swimsuit turned intertwined with the Dominion case after Crikey added hundreds of pages of proof unearthed by the voting expertise firm. Dominion had accused Fox of defaming it by repeatedly linking it to the false voter fraud claims in a number of broadcasts.

Will Hayward, the chief govt of Private Media, wrote in an article revealed on Crikey that cash the corporate had raised by crowdfunding to assist pay for the authorized prices — about $378,000, or about 588,000 in Australian {dollars} — can be donated to the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom, an Australian nonprofit. That donation was a situation of the settlement with Mr. Murdoch.

“This money was raised from the good will of people across Australia who believe in the importance of free speech,” Mr. Hayward mentioned. “These funds will now go to support the alliance and its team as they champion that cause across the world.”