Press Releases
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JOINT PRESS RELEASE on Holocaust Memorial Day
Joint press release from: They Can’t (Jerusalem, Israel) and the Online Hate Prevention Institute (Melbourne, Australia). Major new report into antisemitism in social media released by the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) Report shows YouTube, the focus of They Can’t work, presents the largest challenge They Can’t and OHPI announce stronger cooperation to tackle this…
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Press Release: State of Holocaust Denial on Social Media
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a pioneering research by the Online Hate Prevention Institute “Measuring the Hate: the State of Antisemitism on Social Media” finds that of the three largest social media platforms, YouTube is the largest repository of content promoting Holocaust denial, followed by Twitter and then Facebook. The research, which tracked the…
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Press Release: OHPI releases report on the state of antisemitism on social media
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th) the Online Hate Prevention Institute has released a groundbreaking report “Measuring the Hate: The State of Antisemitism on Social Media”. The report tracks over 2000 items of antisemitism reported to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The items were tracked over 10 months and at the end of…
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Press Release: OHPI announces “Unity in Diversity on Australia Day” campaign
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A day-long campaign “Unity in Diversity on Australia Day” will promote positive Australian values and encourage the reporting of bigotry and racism throughout tomorrow (January 26th). Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute who are behind the campaign explained, “we’re asking supporters to share messages of inclusion to counter…
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Survivor Island 3: What can we learn from the incident
Last week, racism against Aboriginal Australians in digital spaces plumbed new depths as news came out of an online game included killing of Aboriginal Australians as a game plotline, awarding the players for successfully killing them. The game has since been removed from Apple and Google Play store but not before a huge backlash in the…
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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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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 (OHPI), Australia’s national charity dedicated to combating all forms of online hate, 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…
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OHPI represented at a national conference on multiculturalism
On November 5-6, the FECCA 2015 National Biennial Conference dedicated an entire panel discussion to the subject of Cyber Racism. Karen Connelly, a doctoral student at the UTS, represented the Online Hate Prevention Institute on the panel.