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Pakistani man living in Australia describes ‘nightmare’ of wrongly being labelled as Bondi attacker (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Suffa@lemmy.wtf to c/world@quokk.au

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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.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

Ironic it’s Indian right wing influencers. For right wing racist white westerners, they aren’t going to make much of a distinction between an Indian and a Pakistani.