Rabbit Hole du Jour: Australian dad stabbed dead by his own son gets falsely smeared as a pedo by the NY Post

Greg Josephson, 58, was stabbed dead by a 15yo boy in his own upscale Brisbane home last night during a house party involving 30 teenagers. But it gets worse for him after death.

Australia clamps down hard on any revelation of a minor criminal defendant's identity, So there's a ban on reporting the killer's identity in any way. But if you check out Reddit, multiple people are all saying Josephson was a dad trying to shut down his own son's unauthorized teenage party, and the son killed him. They know which schools the son was in, other details, that kind of thing. You can only find this on Reddit. No one on Reddit is saying it was not the son.

Enter the NY Post. They grab the story off "the wires" overnight, flesh it out with AI, and run it with a seamy headline and lead paragraph that really sounds like the dead guy was a rich pervert who lured a bunch of teenage boys to his home and then one of the boys must have "said no"... with a knife. Totally made up but that's where the Post commenters all go, instantly, in their brains... in large part because the Post sets it up for them to make exactly those inferences.

So yesterday afternoon Greg Josephson was just a dad and executive living his life. Then he was a dad who suddenly discovered his teenage son was throwing a party and dozens of teens were coming to the house. Now he's not only dead, killed by his own teenage son, but hordes of total strangers halfway around the world are jumping on a very distorted version of the story and calling Josephson a perv/pedo who got what he deserved.

Truth has become such a casualty these days.