Good morning. Saturday’s knife attack at Bondi Junction, where Queensland man Joel Cauchi killed six people, shows how events with global interest have become opportunities for social media accounts to make inflammatory claims, or to fit the incident into a predetermined narrative. On the weekend, tens of thousands of accounts falsely identified the killer, and some falsely linked the attack to Islamist terrorism.
In other developments around the attack, Cauchi’s family released a statement saying they were “still trying to comprehend what has happened”.
