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Responding to the unprecedented attack on Indigenous Australians through Facebook
Press release: Issued 4:20pm October 11, 2012 The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), an organisation dedicated to combatting online hate, released a major report today into Aboriginal Memes and Online Hate. The report documents an unprecedented online attack against Indigenous Australians and how racist content went viral through the use of social media and in…
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Facebook Forced to Pull Hate Page
The Australian Jewish News reports on Facebook agreeing to block an antisemitic fan page that calls for the destruction of Israel and brands Jews as fodder for gas chambers and mass murder. They talk to our CEO Andre Oboler, who reported the offensive images to Facebook immediately after they went online. Oboler explained that “What…
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Facebook Forced to Pull Hate Page
By Timna Jacks in the Australian Jewish News Bowing to pressure from the Human Rights Commission, Facebook has agreed to block an antisemitic fan page that calls for the destruction of Israel and brands Jews as fodder for gas chambers and mass murder. “Controversial Humour: Jewish Memes”, which was part fo a string of racist and antisemitic…
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Message to Supporters 14 September 2012
Dear all, Thank you for your support of the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s (OHPI’s) petition urging Facebook to immediately review its complaint procedures and address the fact that Facebook’s review staff are routinely rejecting clear cases of hate speech that users have take the time to report to the social media company. (The petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/facebook-must-stop-allowing-hate-speech.)…
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Charge: Facebook Pages Spew Hate
Is there anything Facebook has determined to be sufficiently offensive that it will be removed? There is no scientific equation to determine what is hatred, but a Facebook picture of a smiling Anne Frank surrounded by the caption, “What’s that burning? Oh it’s my family” is an easy one. So is a Facebook picture of…
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Facebook Pages Spew Blood Libels, Attack Jews and Aborigines, Mock Anne Frank
The Jewish Press reports on the Online Hate Prevention Institute and our recent campaign to have Facebook remove hateful, antisemitic content from its platform. They quote our CEO Andre Oboler, who explains: “OHPI submitted documented complaints following the Facebook complaint protocol, and, true to their word, we received a response within 48 hours […] “It’s…
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Facebook sanctions Antisemitic content
Our CEO Andre Oboler discusses antisemitism on Facebook in the wake of Facebook sanctioning antisemitic content by dismissing complaints against clear cases of racist hate speech. Oboler argues that the failure to remove these posts takes the problem from one of an inability to quickly control user generated content, to a problem of institutional antisemitism. Oboler…
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OHPI Start Petition to Facebook
This is the text of OHPI’s petition to Facebook demanding that they stop rejecting complaints of Online Hate. This follows our report on this issue. Stop allowing Hate Speech on Facebook; stop ignoring the terms of service! Facebook is failing to live up to its obligations under its terms of service. It is failing to…
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OHPI on SBS News
An interview with the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, has featured on the SBS TV News accross Australia, as well as in an online articles on the SBS website. Dr Oboler’s comments appear in the News bulletin of Friday 17 August can be seen below. The story focuses on the Aboriginal Memes incident…
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PRESS RELEASE: Discussions with Facebook over Aboriginal Memes
Melbourne, Australia, August 15, 2012… On Monday August 13th the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) sent Facebook a letter regarding a number of groups and pages on the Facebook platform whose sole purpose was the racial vilification of Indigenous Australians. In the letter, OHPI thanked Facebook for removing a number of the pages promoting ‘Aboriginal Memes’…