A Victorian One Nation candidate has been exposed as an administrator of a pro-One Nation Facebook group with ties to an account producing racist and offensive AI slop material.
A spokesperson for One Nation said the candidate participated in the group to help get their campaign message out and emphatically denied any links to overseas content creators.
The official Facebook page of One Nation's candidate for the outer-Melbourne seat of Sydenham, Joh Bauch, has been revealed as one of two administrators of a pro-Pauline Hanson Facebook group with ties to an account publishing racist material.
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation into the group "Make Australia great again with PAULINE HANSON" has discovered the other administrator is a page with a history of posting racist and offensive material including describing Islam as a "cancer on humanity".
The page, called Down Under News, has also shared campaign material for One Nation and Joh Bauch.
Mr Bauch did not respond to questions from ABC NEWS Verify and his account was removed as an administrator of the group after questions were sent to him.
A spokesperson for One Nation said their candidate "joins a lot of [Facebook] groups" to "get his message out" but was unaware they had been made an administrator.