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Twitter Fails to Confront Vicious anti-Semites, Jewish Journalists Say
Haaretz reports on New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman quitting Twitter after the company refused to take down anti-Semitic tweets. The cite the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s report that 22 only percent of anti-Semitic tweets we analyzed had been removed over a 10-month period. For Facebook, the number was 37 percent, for YouTube 8 percent.…
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Online anti-Semitism: Difficult to Fight, but Even Harder to Quantify
Haaretz talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about online antisemitism during the Trump presidency.
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Online anti-Semitism: Difficult to Fight, but Even Harder to Quantify
Haaretz reports on antisemitic attacks from Trump supporters online. They discuss the extent to which social media platforms have been successful in moderating hateful and racist content, and cite our recent report: “Measuring the Hate: The State of Anti-Semitism in Social Media”. This report found that out of 2,000 anti-Semitic items, only 20 percent had…
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European Union agreement with Social Media Platforms on tackling Hate Speech
The Online Hate Prevention Institute welcomes the news that the European Union has just reach agreement on a code of conduct to tackle hate speech with the largest social media platforms providers: Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter. Under the agreement the platforms will “quickly and efficiently” tackle illegal hate speech relating to race, color, religion,…
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OHPI in Bucharest for IHRA
This week OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, is in Bucharest as part of the Australian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). IHRA is a unique intergovernmental organization which places political and social leaders’ support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance and research both nationally and internationally. At present IHRA is made up…
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Chetna Mahadik takes on a new challenge
The Online Hate Prevention Institute is wishes Chetna Mahadik every success as she moves on from her work with us to take on new challenges the Marketing and Communications Coordinator at the Ardoch Youth Foundation. OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, commented that, “Chetna worked for OHPI for two years and in that time has been an…
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The Australian discusses OHPI’s report on antisemitism
Jennifer Oriel, Anti-Semitism’s licit disguise on the Left, February 17. 2016, The Australian Anti-Semitism’s licit disguise on the Left The success of Labor rationalists in thwarting a ban on politicians’ travel to Israel provides welcome relief from the standard irrationality of the Socialist International on foreign affairs. In a stymied motion, Labor Friends of Palestine…
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They Can’t launches petition for YouTube to remove videos promoting terrorism
Recently, OHPI teamed-up with an Israeli organisation They Can’t in a call to fight online antisemitism. They Can’t particularly focusses on YouTube videos that promote, incite and abet violence against Jews. It has succeeded in getting thousands of such videos removed from YouTube. Unfortunately, thousands still remain online. A recent research we conducted, tracking 2,000 items of…
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OHPI mentioned in The Federalist
Melissa Langsam Braunstein, The Spooky New Face of Anti-Semitism, October 30, 2015, The Federalist. Kenneth L Marcus, founder and president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and member of OHPI’s International Advisory Board, was interviewed for The Federalist. He mentioned the work OHPI does, and his connection with our organisation. …
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PRESS RELEASE: Twitter’s culture may be fatal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) is concerned that despite a significant improvement in public relations, there are fundamental underlying problems at Twitter when it comes to the challenge of dealing with hateful and dangerous content. OHPI will continue our open and frank discussions with Twitter on how this issue can be…