🌏 Australia is the only country in the world where a retired 94-year-old media mogul is drawing four times the attention on Wikipedia compared to the person who supposedly runs the government.
- 📰 Policy is downstream of page-views. When Murdoch’s outlets frame a story, Wikipedia follows, because editors cite the loudest available source. The tail wags the dog.
- 🤖 Algorithm gravity. Google’s Knowledge Panel for “Australia politics” still surfaces Murdoch’s bio ahead of Albanese’s on mobile. That isn’t neutrality; it’s inherited SEO