How The Bourke Street Rampage Was Quickly Claimed To Be ‘Islamic Terrorism’

HuffPost reports on the recent attack on Bourke Street, and false claims that it was a case of Islamic Terrorism. Within minutes of the first reports filtering through that there had been a terrible incident, social media and blogs immediately branded it an act of religiously-motivated terror.

They talk to our CEO Dr Andre Oboler about how violent crimes are co-opted to propagate anti-Muslim hate, and the spread of misinformation online.