One Nation: built by the media, supercharged by the algorithms

One Nation: built by the media, supercharged by the algorithms

The media made Pauline Hanson and One Nation, but now the party holds all the power. For 30 years, journalists have ridden a merry-go-round reporting on its stunts and inflammatory rhetoric, while grappling with how to interrogate its policies and hold the party to account. In Episode 5 of The Making of One Nation, far-right communication researcher Kurt Sengul says the party’s used the media. The media have a lot of power to grant outsider fri…