Press Releases
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Basic Online Safety Expectations
In October 2021 the Online Hate Prevention Institute provided a submission to the Australian Government’s consultation on the draft Online Safety (Basic Online Safety Expectations) Determination. Today, the new Ministerial Determination was announced and has come into effect. In our submission we stated: We believe the Government has correctly set the roles of Government, Social…
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OHPI celebrates 10 years of impact against trolling, cyberbullying, online hate, and extremism
For the past ten years, The Online Hate Prevention Institute has played a leading global role in combating the spread of many types of hate through the internet. Incorporated on 23 January 2012, the institute has highlighted how organisations and individuals have exploited the web to foster bigotry along with religious and racial intolerance. Its…
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OHPI welcomes Victorian Government response on anti-vilification protections
The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), Australia’s only national harm prevention charity dedicated to tackling all forms of online hate and extremism, welcomes the Victorian Government’s response to the inquiry into anti-vilification protections. For almost a decade OHPI has led the response to the growing problem of online vilification which causes real world harm to…
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Report of the Inquiry into anti-vilification protections
The Online Hate Prevention Institute warmly welcomes the report of the Inquiry into anti-vilification protections which was tabled today in the Victorian Parliament. The Inquiry undertook extensive consultation. Committee members were deeply engaged and worked in a spirit of cooperation to ensure the best possible outcome could be reached for the Victorian community. The report…
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Facebook resorts to intimidation as publishing paradigms clash
Overnight Facebook ramped up its efforts to pressure the Australian Government into dropping a proposed law that would see online platforms pay media companies for the use of their content. The latest move saw all content linking to the sites of Australian news organisations vanish from Facebook. This has left the Facebook pages of a…
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Facebook bans Holocaust denial
In a major announcement overnight Facebook has reversed a long standing policy and announced that Holocaust denial will now be banned on their platforms. The Online Hate Prevention Institute has been tackling Holocaust denial on Facebook and other platforms, and pushing the company to alter this policy, since we were founded in 2012. We strongly…
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Attacking politicians and antisemitism
Graffiti on the road in Donvale (Victoria, Australia) this morning called for Victorian Premier Dan Andrews to be “stopped”. The brief message, presumably opposing the extension of the current lockdown to tackle COVID-19, included antisemitic themes. The Star of David, a Jewish symbol, in the middle of “Dan” suggests that Dan Andrews (who is not…
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Call on Facebook to adopt the IHRA’s working definition of Antisemitism
The Online Hate Prevention Institute, together with over 125 other organisations from around the world, has called on Facebook to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism. Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute, commented: “The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism brings clarity that helps organisations and governments recognise…
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Blur faces: Signal’s anonymity tool
The encrypted messaging App Signal has released an update to support the protests in the United States. They explain: “At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something in America needs to change, and even if we don’t know exactly how, we support…
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Campaign against Holocaust denial, distortion and glorification
Launched on January 27, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz, our campaign against Holocaust denial, distortion and glorification will run until the end of February 2020. As part of this campaign we will be producing a number of briefings looking at examples of online Holocaust denial,…