OHPI in the Press
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Daniel Andrews warns of rising antisemitism after neo-Nazi gathering in Victorian national park
The Gaurdian reports that Daniel Andrews has warned that “evil” and “wicked” antisemitism is on the rise after a meeting of neo-Nazis in Victoria’s Grampians national park on Saturday. The spoke to our CEO Andre Oboler, who said a similar Grampians tour was attempted by one of the group’s precursors. “This was really just a…
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Online hate has surged during the pandemic and solutions are not being funded
Our CEO Andre Oboler speaks to The Advocate about online hate during the coronavirus outbreak. Oboler argued that online hate proliferated during the pandemic, and explained that the Government needs to be willing to fund initiatives to help solve this problem.
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Terror time bomb: the race to defuse Australia’s far-right threat
In the wake of the Christchurch attack, The Guardian investigates the growing threat of white supremicist and far right groups, and the lack of efforts to combat extremism in Australia.
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Tackling Holocaust denial and distortion will be a challenge for Facebook
By Dr Andre Oboler Having banned Holocaust denial and distortion last week, Facebook now faces the challenge of applying that policy and cleaning up over sixteen years of hate. The challenge comes as Facebook faces record levels of user engagement and record levels of online hate. I raised the alarm that antisemitism in social media…
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Tackling denial will be a challenge for Facebook
Our CEO Andre Oboler discusses Facebook’s recent ban on holocaust denial in Australian Jewish News, and outlines some of the challenges that the platform will face when trying to implement this new policy.
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Facebook’s big changes on hate-speech – here’s why they won’t last
The New Daily cites our CEO Andre Oboler when reporting on leaked audio of Facebook CEO discussing their hate-speech policies.
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Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle
jmedia.online reports on our CEO’s Andre Oboler’s campaign for Facebook to ban holocaust denial. The article reports on Oboler’s cautious optimism in response to Facebook changing their policies.
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Long lived, now Facebook bans content that denies Nazi Germany’s tragedy of the Jewish Massacre
cyberthreat.id talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s policies on holocaust denial, and on the possibility that Facebook may be on the wrong side of history.
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Facebook bans posts denying and distorting the Holocaust
jwire.com talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s recent ban of holocaust denial on the platform. Oboler talks about his past campaign for this change, and about the changing position and responsibilities of Facebook in our society.
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Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle
The New Daily speaks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s recent banning of holocaust denial on the platform. Oboler speaks about the past efforts to get Facebook to change their policy, and explains that he is waiting to see how the policy is implemented before celebrating.