Last weekend in the aftermath of the Bondi Mall stabbings, we saw a prime example of how badly wrong the internet can go.
For 14 hours, Sydney student Ben Cohen was widely named and wrongly identified as the killer - and it spread like wildfire internationally.
By Sunday morning, his name had made its way into the mainstream media - with Australia's 7News misidentifying Ben as the attacker.
Barrister Chris Patterson joined Francesca to discuss how this happened.
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