WhatsApp and the Wakeley riot: how a messaging platform became a fake news broadcaster

On the night of the alleged stabbing of a Sydney priest, the spread of misinformation escalated violence faster than news outlets could report the storyGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIt took less than 30 minutes for a video of an alleged stabbing attack at a church in western Sydney to snake its way through WhatsApp groups across the city.As chaos was still unfolding inside the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakeley last Monday night, clips