Pakistani man living in Australia describes ‘nightmare’ of wrongly being labelled as Bondi attacker
Pakistani man living in Australia describes ‘nightmare’ of wrongly being labelled as Bondi attacker
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Pakistani man living in Australia describes ‘nightmare’ of wrongly being labelled as Bondi attacker
Naveed Akram, a 30-year-old from New South Wales, was misidentified online as alleged attacker of the same name as misinformation spreads
Many of the accounts that were sharing his image falsely were from India, as right-wing influencers seized on the alleged origin of the shooter as proof of Pakistan’s terror connections, without fact-checking whether it was the correct man they were vilifying.