OHPI staff, volunteers and advisers are active internationally in wide range of research publications. These are some of the contributions in areas relevant to our mission by OHPI, our partners, advisers and volunteers.
This work examines 50 anti-Muslim Facebook pages from which it documents 349 images of anti-Muslim hate. These images represent 191 unique images and many repetitions as messages of hate move between the different pages. The message of hate in this report are divided into seven themes which the report discusses:
On International Human Rights Day, December 10th 2013, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) have released a major new report into the growing problem of online hate targeting the Muslim community. The full report, titled ‘Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims’, is available below as a free download. The report examines anti-Muslim hate on Facebook and was produced by the Online Hate Prevention Institute, Australia’s only charity entirely dedicated to the growing problem of online hate. We thank the Islamic Council of Victoria, the peak body representing Victoria’s Muslim community, who we consulted regularly in…
On Tuesday 15 October 2013 OHPI held it’s Annual General Meeting. The meeting approved the operating report (below) and the audited financials on OHPI’s first financial year. As a new organisation, our financial year extended for almost 18 months. A huge amount was achieved and we are excited to make the operating report public. Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) 2013 Annual Report on Operations
As co-chair of the Working Group on Antisemitism on the Internet and in the Media, OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, delivered a summary of the Working Group’s meeting and plan of action to the plenary. The Working Group was made up of about 50 international experts in the field of online hate and the plenary included 450 people including government ministers from various countries, diplomats, Jewish community leaders, leaders from NGOs combating antisemitism, academics and members of the press. During the presentation Dr Oboler launched the Working Group’s major report into Online Antisemitism, “Online Antisemitism: A systematic review”. The report…
In the lead-up to ANZAC day 2013 an internet troll began creating a series of pages mocking ANZAC veterans. The pages were designed to cause public outrage in both Australia and New Zealand. The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) documented these hate pages and regularly updated Facebook, law enforcement and relevant government departments. Our efforts, assisted by volunteers, many of them war veterans, ensured the pages were found and closed with minimum impact. This report documents these pages, Facebook’s response, and the creator’s effort first to cause outrage in the community through a primary attack on something held scared, and…
The Online Hate Prevention Institute released a major new report into antisemitism on Facebook to coincide with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21st 2013. The new report tracks the response to a number of antisemitic items on Facebook. Some of the items were included in OHPI’s previous report in 2012 into Aboriginal Memes and Online Hate, others are new in 2013. The report shows how some items are removed by Facebook while others remain online, some for more than 6 months. The report examines what Facebook removes and what sort of content Facebook does not consider hate speech and refuses…
The Online Hate Prevention Institute is pleased to announce the release of a major new report into Aboriginal Memes and Online Hate. The press release can be viewed here (or seen below) and the report may be downloaded here (or seen below). PRESS RELEASE: Responding to the unprecedented attack on Indigenous Australians through Facebook 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…
The primary aim of this report is to demonstrate and discuss the problem of multiple and severe instances of hate speech on the YouTube platform. Aspects of this analysis apply equally to other forms of social media content and to other platforms. The report both describes the problem and provides some recommendations to mitigate and control the problem. This report demonstrates how one user, with one account, was able to upload 1710 videos in a single day. The vast majority of these videos promoted online hate. While a direct outcome of this report has been the closure by YouTube of…
At the invitation of the Federal Liberal and National Parties, the Online Hate Prevention Institute participated in a round table and made a written submission as part of the Coalitions Review of Online Safety for Children. OHPI’s submission note that while cyberbullying is recognized as a significant online threat to children, it has a fairly narrow definition and other forms of hate are excluded, for example online racism targeting communities at large rather than specific individuals. The sumission noted that racism and other forms of hate have a well recognized effect on children and can significant impact on mental and physical health.…