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Annual Activity Reports 2024 & 2025

We’re please to share the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s annual activity reports covering the period 1 July 2023 – 30 June 2024, and 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025. We have combined these into a single report.

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Highlights

Projects

The Referendum Project: We partnered with the Australian Human Rights Council and Meta to monitor online hate in the lead up to the The Voice Referendum. In total we analysed 37,785 comments made across 528 social media posts that shared mainstream media news articles about the referendum. Even after platforms and news organisations had compeleted moderation, we found significant problematic content remained.

Australia Day Project 2024: We monitored the comments on social media posts sharing news articles about Australia Day, recording a surge in hate. In a second part of the project we monitored Facebook, Instagram, Twitter / X, TikTok, and LinkedIn for hate around Australia Day recording 147 items of racism and 11 of referendum disinformation (despite the referendum being over).

Holocaust Memorial Day Social Media Monitoring 2024: We monitored Facebook, Instagram, Twitter / X, TikTok, and LinkedIn for Holocaust denial and distortion and antisemitism on Holocaust Memorial Day. We collected 287 items of Holocaust disinformation and 187 items of antisemitism.

Dunkley by-election Project (2024): We conducted three days of social media monitoring in the lead-up to the Dunkley by-election. We monitored across 10 social media platforms for disinformation, racism, and other forms of hate. 46% percent of the disinformation attacked one candidate / party and that person / party went on to win the seat.

Moment Project (2024): Our response, in partnership with the Online Hate Task Force (Belgium) to the October 7 terrorist attack involved an intensive project monitoring (a) antisemitism and (b) anti-Muslim hate and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. Monitoring 10 social media platforms, each for 16 hours on antisemitism and 16 hours on Islamohpobia, we captured 2898 examples of online antisemitism and 1169 examples of anti-Muslim hatred / related forms of racism.

Monitoring Online Antisemitism in Australia (2023-2024): A two year project in partnership with the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. We monitored 10 social media platforms from late 2022 until the end of September 2023, and then from October 2023 through to the end of September 2024. The work also incorporated the intensive monitoring of the Moment project on antisemitism and in total resulted in over 6,000 items of antisemitism being documents and classified.

Building regional and national capacity in civil society to counter extremism (2024): Funded by the Department of Home Affairs as part of the Safer Together Community Grants, OHPI trained and employed three casual staff to enhance our capacity to (a) Detect, monitor, and deconstruct harmful online content (b) Create publications and support training for local organisations
(c) Support OHPI Exit’s training for those supporting people vulnerable to extremism. 1260 items of online hate of various types were collected and 20 briefings were published.

New Zealand Antisemitism Project (2024): In partnership with the Astor Foundation we trained and managed a group of analysts in New Zealand to collect data on online antisemitism. Over 1200 items of antisemitism were collected and a significant number of briefings published.

United Against Hate (2025): In partnership with the Online Hate Task Force and others we launched United Against Hate to mark the UN International Day Against Hate Speech. In this campaign we worked with politicians, special envoys, religious leaders, civil society leaders and others to report both antisemitism and Islamophobia and monitor takedown rates.

Reports

Online Antisemitism Before October 7 (25.03.2024)

Building on data gathered in 2022-2023, our Online Antisemitism Before October 7 report examines online antisemitism across ten social media platforms in the year leading up to the October 7 terrorist attack in 2023.

Online Antisemitism After October 7 (25.03.2024)

The report is based on 160 hours of monitoring by experts, 16 hours on each of 10 platforms: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter), YouTube, Telegram, LinkedIn, Gab, Reddit, and BitChute. The data has been categorised using 27 subcategories of antisemitism.

Online Anti-Muslim Hate and Racism Against Palestinians and Arabs: October 2023 – February 2024 (04.08.2024)

provides a vital in-depth analysis of online anti-Muslim hate as well as online racism against Palestinians and Arabs based on data gathered between 27 October 2023 and 8 February 2024. The data is the result of 160 discrete instances of data collection, each lasting one hour. One instance was collected in turn on each of ten online platforms before a new cycle was begun. The platforms were: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter), YouTube, Telegram, LinkedIn, Gab, Reddit, and BitChute.

New Zealand Pilot Project – Online Antisemitism (December 2024)

Between April and September 2024, a group of New Zealand university students were hired by the Astor Foundation and seconded to the Online Hate Prevention Institute for training and management in a project to collect online antisemitism, particularly content originating in New Zealand. In total 1217 items of data were collected by these students with 884 (73%) being content that originated or was reposted by people in New Zealand. The data came from 10 social media platforms.

Responses to the Melbourne Synagogue Attacks in 2024 & 2025 (June-July 2025)

The discourse highlighted in this report often dismisses antisemitic attacks as “false flags”. It appears in different flavours, blaming the Jewish community, Zionists, Israel, the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, the Australian intelligence service ASIO, police, or the government. Regardless of who it blames, the underlying message in these conspiracy theories is clear. It asserts that the Jewish community does not deserve the same sort of sympathy or support as would naturally be given to any other community facing such a rise in racism directed against them.

Briefings (Article)

We published a total of 73 briefings over the two years. The cover a wide range of topics including:

Training

Introductory Training: Our introductory course on responding to online hate clarifies what hate-speech is and explores some of its impacts. Delivered to 54 participants. This training was funded by Home Affairs.

Expert Training and Interships: This expert training gives participants the skills and access to become online Triage Analysts, able to identify, document, report on, and escalate concerns over harmful content. 28 people completed the eight hours of initial training with many then completing practical work or internships. This training was funded by Meta.

We also delivered training to police internationally and to public prosecutors across Europe.

Exit Australia and New Zealand

From July 2023 to June 2024, Exit had a busy year working with demanding clients, often with minimal support, navigating complex situations. Exit’s new clients came from diverse backgrounds as individuals, while others represented groups from varying, intense ideologies, including anti-government, conspiracy-driven, and racial views.

On the 17th of February 2025, A Four Corners episode investigated the growing threat of extremism in Australia and the effects it has on the families of radicalised individuals. It features an interview with Matt Quinn, which covers the work that the Exit Australia branch of OHPI has done to support radicalised individuals and help them out of extremist communities.

Government engagement in Australia

We made a number of submissions to government and parliamentry inquiries:

Community Engagement

  • Presentation at IEEE Sections Congress, Ottawa
  • Meeting with Kate Thwaites MP, Chair of Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters in the Australian Parliament
  • Panel on Antisemitism post October 7 with Katharina von Schnurbein (European Commission Coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life) and Noah Loven (President of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students).
  • Meeting with the US Deputy Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism
  • Presentations at the European Conference of Public Prosecution Services on Antisemitism
  • Presentations at IHRA’s Glasgow Plenary
  • Meeting with the Attorney General Mark Dreyfus
  • Guest lectures and meetings with the Vice Chacellor at the University of Sydney
  • Meetings with the NSW Premiers Department
  • Meetings with Meta
  • Meetings with YouTube
  • Chaired IEEE Digital Platforms and Societal Harms Conference (Washington DC)
  • Guest lecture at the University of Manitoba
  • Keynote speaker for Holocaust Memorial Day at the Canadian Human Rights Museum

Media

We appeared in the media 36 times over the period, both locally and internationally.

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