Open Action Items
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Car Attack in Flinders Street Melbourne
On December 21st 2017 a car deliberately drove through pedestrians outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. 19 people were injured and one later died in hospital. The driver was known to police and had a history of mental health issues and drug abuse. An Australian citizen of Afghan background, he had come to Australia as…
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Twitter getting tougher on hate
On the advice of its Trust and Safety Council, Twitter has expanded its understanding of prohibited hate. For the first time Twitter will consider content on users profiles not just their tweets. This means hate speech found in account names, description and profile images will now be considered. The change appears to be an extension…
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Marriage Equality Postal Survey and Online Hate
The #DebateWithoutHate campaign is a campaign to counter the bullying, harassment, vilification, bigotry and hate speech which is being expressed online as a result of the public debate around the same sex marriage postal survey. This is not a campaign for “yes” or “no” on the postal survey itself and we hope people on both…
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Debate Without Hate
Have you seen bullying of individuals or harassment of groups in society during online discussions about the same sex marriage postal survey? As part of the #DebateWithoutHate campaign, you can now report that content using the tool below Other online hate which is entirely unrelated to Australia’s same sex marriage postal survey can still be reported…
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OHPI on Indigenous Issues
Sophie, a 4th year education and Aboriginal studies teacher at the University of Sydney, was compiling a set of resources addressing racism of Aboriginal people. She wrote to us saying, “I really like your website and the ease of use it offers to students” and has a few questions the Online Hate Prevention Institute and…
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Update on AFL Memes
Following our briefing on AFL Memes and our e-mail to Facebook, the two worst examples from the page were removed on June 3rd. Ten day’s later the page itself was closed. The same people, however, have another AFL Memes page with another Adam Goodes meme is still online. The page is Troll AFL [ID: 395819680601992] and has 21,923…
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Trolling the AFL with racism and misogyny
June 23 2016: WIN! This page has been removed, but additional problems exist. For an update on this story, see our AFL Memes Update. The AFL Memes page (ID: 258629594224050) has been around since March 2012 and currently has 196,334 supporters. It’s address is https://www.facebook.com/TrollAFL1 clearly identifying it as a trolling page. Trolling occurs in social media…
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An extremely antisemitic Facebook Group
An extremely antisemitic Facebook Group “Zionist Israel A Threat to Mankind” (ID: 143181956051023) has gathered 26,489 members after operating for just 4 months. The page’s contents ranges from Holocaust denial to incitement to genocide. This briefing focuses on one post in the group, the comments on that post, and the way it went viral. UPDATE…
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Report Hate Against Military Veterans
People can have legitimate stand against the use of military by nation states. However, such a stand should not lead to the promotion of hate of and discrimination against our military personnel and veterans. Unfortunately, the Facebook community page Gaia’s Dancing Indigo Children (Facebook ID: 828716663905465) is failing to make that distinction. The page belongs to an American new-age spiritual group.…
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Racist groups use Australia Day to promote bigotry
Racist groups on social media are using Australia Day to challenge who counts as Australian, and what being Australian means. They are spreading a message that those born in Australia are “Indigenous Australians” regardless of whether they have any connection to Aboriginal peoples or Torres Strait Islanders, offending both actual Indigenous Australians whose first people status…