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Benjamin Cohen: Here's how the lie spread around the world

Benjamin Cohen: Here's how the lie spread around the world

Benjamin Cohen: Here's how the lie spread around the world
15 April 2024

For 14 hours over the weekend, Sydney university student Ben Cohen was one of the most reviled men on the internet after he was falsely accused of being the knifeman who went on a stabbing rampage in a Sydney shopping centre, killing six people.

The ABC has pieced together how anti-semitic and pro-Kremlin accounts turned Mr Cohen into an internet villain.

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