Open Action Items
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Address to the United Nations
On Friday 20 November our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, served as the panelist for Civil Society in the UN’s 13th Session of the Forum on Minority Issues. The session this year focused on “Hate Speech, Social Media and Minorities”. A clip with Dr Oboler’s presentation is presented below. The full 2 hours can be seen…
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COVID-19: Coronavirus and Fake News
Spreading faster than the Coronavirus, COVID-19, is misinformation and fake news. Some of it starts as a misunderstanding of official announcements, some is an expression of people’s fears and some is just plain maliciousness. In this briefing we will cover and debunk some of the fake news we’ve seen spreading. Getting Accurate Information It is…
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Racism Against Indigenous Australians on Instagram
Instagram not only hosts racist content, but entire accounts dedicated to sharing racist memes and which encourage others to do the same.
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Holocaust Denial on Instagram
Instagram’s Community Guidelines prohibit both incitement to violence and hate speech. The focus, however, is primarily on bullying which attacks an individual: Respect other members of the Instagram community. We want to foster a positive, diverse community. We remove content that contains credible threats or hate speech, content that targets private individuals to degrade or…
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Online Hate Prevention Institute Turns Eight!
The Online Hate Prevention Institute turns 8 today. As we celebrate these 8 years of impact, reducing the risk from online hate and extremism, we are also pleased to announce our plans for the future. Since we were founded in January 2012 the volume of online hate has risen year on year. It has increasingly…
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HATE AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM FROM AN ONLINE SUBCULTURE: The Yom Kippur Terrorist Attack in Halle, Germany
A new form of terrorism emerged in 2019. Incubated by a globalised, toxic, anonymous online culture, incitement to hate now all too frequently leads to violent extremism that manifests offline, and has cost the lives of dozens of innocents, including children. Participants and spectators of this newly forged online culture encourage, support and celebrate the serious crimes…
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Stopping Trolling and Gendered Based Hate
Victorian Member of Parliament and leader of the Reason Party Fiona Patten has announced a push to introduce a bill to the Victorian parliament “designed to stop trolling in its tracks”. Her proposal is to alter the existing Racial and Religious Tolerance Act to give it wider coverage. Her press release states: “Racial and Religious…
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A thread of anti-religious hate
Following our reports Facebook have removed content promoting Holocaust distortion and antisemitism. The same source also promotes anti-Christian hate.
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YouTube strengthens response to hate
YouTube have just made three important changes to their policies to strengthen their efforts against hate. These moves are warmly welcomed by the Online Hate Prevention Institute which has noted the use of YouTube as a preferred channel for the promotion of certain types of hate, in part due to YouTube’s unwillingness to remove such…
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Responding to Christchurch: Tackling Online Hate and Extremism
Following the terrorist attack in Christchurch New Zealand, live streamed on Facebook, which left 50 people dead hate speech and extremism online as in the spotlight. As Australia’s only Harm Prevention Charity dedicated to to tackling online hate and extremism we at the Online Hate Prevention Institute have suddenly found ourselves and our work in…