Uni student wrongly named as attacker

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First-year student Ben Cohen, 20, said he has been inundated with messages and social media friend requests after his photos went viral as the Bondi Junction attacker.

A Sydney university student says he has received “thousands” of messages and friend requests after being “dangerously” mistakenly online as the Westfield Bondi Junction attacker.

The name “Benjamin Cohen” began trending on X – formerly known as Twitter – on Saturday night with 50,000 posts now made about the name. “People don’t really think too hard about what they’re posting and how it might affect someone. It’s very dangerous how people could just make stuff up and destroy people’s lives.

 

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