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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Calls to Kill on Facebook
UPDATE (5 August 2014): In the early hours of August 5th (Melbourne time), after this report went viral with over 1000 shares, this hate was finally removed by Facebook. Thank you to everyone for your support and your help reporting this page. Together we made a difference. Hadar Goldin, a 23 year old Second Lieutenant…
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60 Minutes Unholy War
At around 8pm on Saturday night, Channel Nine’s 60 minutes Australia program posted an announcement on their Facebook page about tomorrow’s program (see it at the bottom of this briefing). The announcement claims “#60Mins brings you both sides from the Israeli Gaza war zone”. Within a few hours of the announcement there had been over 250 comments…
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An antisemitic response to the Hamas-Israel war
(Updated 23rd of July) The Online Hate Prevention Institute is deeply concerned by the increased level of antisemitism being spread on social media as a result of the current conflict between Hamas and Israel. Yesterday afternoon we wrote to a charity based in Victoria after their Facebook page posted an antisemitic image comparing Israeli policies…
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Hate, Humour and Social Media
Humour can be a powerful tool. It can break down barriers and allow the inappropriate or impolite to be said. Through humour deep fear can be broached and established power structures challenged. Humour, however, can also be used to enforce existing power structures, to humiliate, and to exclude. In social media the power of humour…
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Lady Diamond explains S18C
In the second in our series of educational videos by Lady Diamond, the anti-hate campaigner explains what S18C of the Racial Discrimination Act is really about and why is it important. Your thoughts and feedback on this video can be shared on it’s main posting on Facebook – click here. Please help us share Lady…
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The Bendigo Mosque: Exporting Hate to Regional Victoria
On January 11th, 2014, a Facebook page “Stop the Mosque in Bendigo” (id: 1409152012662221) was created to oppose plans for the construction of the first Mosque in the Victorian city of Bendigo. Over the last three month we’ve watched the page grow from 4,682 supporters to over 8,000. Recent media attention has given it a…
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Meet Lady Diamond
Welcome to the Adventures of Lady Diamond, Anti-Hate Campaigner at the Online Hate Prevention Institute. This is the first in a new series of videos produced by OHPI to explore issues of online hate. Two further video will be released by the end of July. Your thoughts and feedback on this video can be shared…
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Problems with Facebook and some users
Update: Facebook has restored our commentary about the article An article by the examiner has highlights a real problem in relation to Facebook, and it’s not the problem the article intended to raise. The article argues Facebook is removing content critical of Islam but leaving up content advocating violence against Jews. In reality, Facebook is…
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Landover Baptist Church and the limits of satire
This week, the Facebook Page of the Landover Baptist Church sparked a discussion in the OHPI office on the limits of satire. Are there any limits, or is all fair in love, war and lampooning? First, a brief background. The Landover Baptist Church is a fictional Baptist church is the US that satirises fundamentalist Christianity and the…
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4Chan’s /pol/ and the Trouble with Dean
Epic Fails in Trolling by Ben Garrison is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This cartoon was created for this article published by OHPI. You may use it provided it is not altered and that you credit it as “Credit: © Online Hate Prevention Institute; Artist, Ben Garrison. Used with permission see…