Briefings
OHPI briefings provide quick responses to breaking issues, or short but detailed explanations on focused topics. Our briefings are original OHPI content originally published on this site.
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Holocaust Denial & Social Media
January 27 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the day on which Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated. On this day, we remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered under an official Nazi policy to exterminate them for simply being who they were:…
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Reporting using the Fight Against Hate tool
‘Fight Against Hate’ Launch Event, Sydney 2014 On the 9th of December 2014, the evening before International Human Rights Day, the Online Hate Prevention Institute held a public event to globally launch “Fight against Hate” our online tool for reporting and monitoring online hate and bigotry. The Hon Paul Fletcher MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the…
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Bike rage and the aggressive cyclist lobby
Over the last few days the OHPI Facebook page has received a number of comments relating to what is called “bike rage”. These comments come from an organised group of people who are trying to raise issues related to the rights of cyclists to use the roads. There has been significant commentary in the past…
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Rebutting The Conversation on online harm
We don’t normally publish replies to articles in the press, but a recent article in The Conversation” is so out of date in both its facts and its thinking that we felt the record had to be set straight. Frankly we expect more from The Conversation. This reads like a sponsored advertorial about the trust…
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Freedom with Responsibility (ICFOSS, 2014)
The text of this talk will be added after the talk is delivered, in the mean time, here are the slides. Freedom With Responsibility – ICFOSS
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Facebook Experiments with Australia
On December 11th the Online Hate Prevention Institute claimed a major win, the closure of the Facebook hate page “Take Back Australia”. This briefing is not about the page, but about Facebook itself. It highlights how after banning the page, Facebook partially circumvented their own systems, putting public safety in Australia at risk, to impose…
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WIN: Hate page Take Back Australia CLOSED
Update December 2014 – WIN! OHPI has been campaigning for the hate page “Take Back Australia” to be closed since the 2nd of October 2014. We’re pleased to report that on December 11th 2014, the day after International Human Rights Day, Facebook finally closed this vile page. On October 10th, prior to coming down, the…
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Hate among friends
Most of the online hate OHPI reports on is public content. The reason for this is that public content is able to go viral and can usually do far more harm than content shared between people privately or only between friends. It is because of the greater risk from public content that OHPI usually focuses…
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Lady Diamond discusses online antisemitism
Lady Diamond, Anti-Hate Campaigner at the Online Hate Prevention Institute, is back and she is tackling online antisemitism this time. In the third in our series of educational videos, Lady Diamond debunks the antisemitic conspiracy theories doing the rounds of social media including blood libel, The Elders of the Protocols of Zion and the Holocaust…
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How to report a Facebook comment
Whilst comments normally only display options to Like or Reply, hovering the mouse cursor over a comment will display a cross and tooltip which allows you to hide it and then report it. Comments must be hidden before they can be reported! Step 1 Hover the mouse cursor over the comment to show a cross…