News
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The Indian response to @shamiwitness and the abuse of social media
Published in Jerusalem Post, December 15, 2014 by Dr Andre Oboler. http://www.jpost.com/landedpages/printarticle.aspx?id=384670 There is a buzz here in India at the news that an Indian man, Mehdi Masroor Biswas, was arrested in the early hours of Saturday morning for operating the popular pro-ISIS Twitter account @shamiwitness. The account shared links to beheading videos and interviewed foreign…
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OHPI participates in the AGM of JCCV
At the Annual General Meeting of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) on November 24, 2014, Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) was presented with the Marion and Kurt Lippmann Scholarship. He was also elected to join the JCCV Executive Committee. Community leaders, Rabbonim, members of parliament, including the leaders of…
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Victoria: Change at the Top
Published in J-Wire on November 26, 2014 by David Marlow. http://www.jwire.com.au/victoria-change-top/ At the Annual General Meeting of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) on Monday evening, two time JCCV President Nina Bassat completed her term and handed over the baton of the Presidency to lawyer, community leader and past member of the Victorian Parliament Jennifer Huppert.…
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Preventing Online Hate
Published in J-Wire on December 10, 2014 by Sabina Baunin. http://www.jwire.com.au/preventing-online-hate/ OHPI is a harm prevention organisation headed by Dr Andre Oboler which focuses on hateful and discriminatory internet content across a wide array of websites including social media and websites which serve as advocacy platforms. In the past OHPI has monitored harmful online content consisting of Anti-Semitism,…
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New tool in fighting online hate
Published in the Australian Jewish News on December 15, 2014. Author: Phoebe Roth. http://www.jewishnews.net.au/new-tool-to-fight-online-hate/38909 New tool to fight online hate THE Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) last week launched a new online tool, Fight Against Hate, set to revolutionise the way online anti-Semitism, and discrimination on the web more broadly, is dealt with. The software was…
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The Indian response to @shamiwitness and the abuse of social media
There is a buzz here in India at the news that an Indian man, Mehdi Masroor Biswas, was arrested in the early hours of Saturday morning for operating the popular pro-ISIS Twitter account @shamiwitness. The account shared links to beheading videos and interviewed foreign fighters before they left to join ISIS and after they arrived.…
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OHPI: Tracking down the data to combat online hate
The Big Smoke reports on the launch of a software database designed by The Online Hate Prevention Institution (OHPI) that will collect and measure messages of violence and abuse posted online. The scope of the data collection covers all forms of hate, including misogyny, homophobia, vilification of Indigenous Australians, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hate, trolling, digital self-harm and anti-ANZAC…
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OHPI: Tracking down the data to combat online hate
The Big Smoke, 11 December 2014, by Richard Jackson OHPI: Tracking down the data to combat online hate Richard Jackson attended the launch by The Online Hate Prevention Institution (OHPI) of a database it hopes will help combat online hate. On Tuesday night the B’nai B’rith Centre, a Jewish organisation based in Darlinghurst, celebrated the…
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Hitting back against hate
Mx Newspaper reports on The Online Hate Prevention Institute‘s new tool that can be used to report, log and track online hate. Fight Against Hate uses crowd-sourcing to wage war on the haters by allowing users globally to alert experts to online hate in real time. It will be wielded against those who espouse forms…
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Muslims Trolled, interview with ABC Radio National
Our CEO Andre Oboler is interviewed by ABC Radio National about our major new report which has been released to coincide with International Human Rights Day. The report looks at the growing problem of online hate targeting the Muslim community, and is titled: ‘Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting’. It names…