‘Highly Distressing’: 20-Year-Old Student Misidentified as Bondi Knife Attacker

An innocent university student, who was misidentified as the killer behind the brutal stabbing rampage at a Sydney shopping mall, has hit out at those who spread the misinformation, including the Seven Network. From about 8:30 p.m. on April 13, Ben Cohen, a 20-year-old computing science student at the University of Technology Sydney, was wrongly named as the killer on social media, with his photo going viral online. The Jewish student’s name was also trending on X, formally known as Twitter, hours after the attack with over 50,000 posts mentioning his name. Channel Seven then picked up the false claims, describing him as “a 40-year-old lone-world attacker Benjamin Cohen.”...