News
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Address to the United Nations
On Friday 20 November our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, served as the panelist for Civil Society in the UN’s 13th Session of the Forum on Minority Issues. The session this year focused on “Hate Speech, Social Media and Minorities”. A clip with Dr Oboler’s presentation is presented below. The full 2 hours can be seen…
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Italian Government Presentation on Antisemitism 2.0
Our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, presented to the Italian Government’s conference on “Online Antisemitism and Hate Conspiracy in Internet Time” on November 18th. The presentation explains antisemitism 2.0 as it was, and where it is now in 2020. The conference by co-organised by Italy’s National Coordinator for the Fight Against Antisemitism, the National Office Against…
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Inter-Parliamentary Task Force on Online Antisemitism
The Online Hate Prevention Institute participated in the Inter-Parliamentary Task Force on Online Antisemitism’s first meeting with experts. Our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, briefed members of the Australian Parliament, US Congress, UK Parliament, Canadian Parliament, and Israeli Knesset on the changes to online antisemitism over recent years and the pipeline from hate to terrorism. He…
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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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Campaign to Counter Terrorism
Throughout November 2020, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) will be running a campaign that focusses on Countering Terrorism. Over many years now, OHPI has: supplied intelligence to police and security agencies, removed terrorist material, and contributed to both the public policy of governments and the corporate policies of technology platforms. The Online Hate Prevention…
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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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OHPI Addresses Asia Pacific Regional Forum
The CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute, Dr Andre Oboler, presented to a regional forum on October 20th 2020 and outlined four key recommendation for addressing online hate speech to create a safer space for minorities. Asia Pacific Regional Forum on Hate Speech, Social Media and Minorities was a 2-day online event convened by…
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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.