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PRESS RELEASE: Shurat Hadin Facebook experiment on Kill Israelis and Kill Palestinians
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A number of people sent us a video of an experiment by an Israeli NGO, Sherut Hadin. In the video they created two hate pages, once against Israelis and one against Palestinians. Very similar content was posted to each page. They then reported both pages. The anti-Palestinian page was promptly removed while…
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PRESS RELEASE: Marc Knobel joins OHPI International Advisory Board
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) is pleased to welcome Mr Marc Knobel as a new member of our International Advisory Board (IAB). The IAB is made up of international experts who support OHPI’s work by providing advice to the OHPI staff and Board of Directors. The AIB is chaired by Dr…
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PRESS RELEASE: Improvements at Twitter
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Online Hate Prevention Institute is please to welcome changes announced by Twitter which will help reduce online hate. In the last three years there has been a 4800 per cent increase in racial slurs on Twitter with overall hate rising rapidly across social media in 2015. We were pleased to meet with…
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BBC reflects with OHPI on rising online hate in 2015
The BBC interviews our CEO Andre Oboler about rising levels on online hate in 2015.
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BBC reflects with OHPI on rising online hate in 2015
Mike Wendling from the BBC has written an excellent reflection on the rising levels of online hate in 2015. The Online Hate prevention Institute is pleased our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, was extensively interviewed for this piece. Dr Oboler spoke to the BBC about the rise during the year in anti-Muslim hate, antisemitism and misogyny and…
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Drastic Action on Online Hate
This article was originally published as: Andre Oboler, “Social media in Germany combating hateful speech“, J-Wire, 28 December 2015 At one time Germany was the origin of racist hate speech which spread across the globe. Not just speech, but speech which turned into action and fed the flames. It’s no coincidence that today the Federal…
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Regulation of Online Hate Speech goes National
Facebook, Twitter, and Google have reached agreement with the German Government over the appropriate response to tackle hate speech. The response is deletion, and the time frame is 24 hours from when it is reported. This is not a good will gesture from the companies, but like other major improvements in tackling hate speech, it…
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La Trobe University & OHPI
La Trobe University has generously given OHPI’s CEO and Communications Manager certificates of appreciation for the mentoring they have provided to students of communication from the University. OHPI has been working with the communications students of the La Trobe University for the past few years. Our collaborations have included making presentations before their undergraduate and graduate…
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OHPI joins All Together Now for #silencetheracists campaign
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Cronulla riots on December 12, OHPI joined the national charity All Together Now in an online campaign #silencetheracists. The far right groups were planning to use the Cronulla riots anniversary to organise an anti-Islam rally at the beach. This in turn would lead to further racist and hateful…
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Anti-Muslim Internet Hate: Interim Report to mark International Human Rights Day
To mark the International Human Rights Day today, the Online Hate Prevention Institute has released an interim report into anti-Muslim hate in social media. The report is evidence based and draws on a sample of over 1100 items reported by the public between September 24 2015 and November 24, 2015. The report is particularly timely with…