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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Islamophobia on Facebook: Hate Against Muslims Crosses the Line
OHPI is currently working on a new report focused on Islamophobia on Facebook. One aspect of our report will be clarifying the definition of Islamophobia which we take
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Anti-Muslim rant going viral
An Anti-Muslim rant falsely attributed to Julia Gillard, and exposed by Snopes back in January 2013, went viral on Facebook in July 2013. After a successful campaign by
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Attacking the ANZACs
Since the week of April 9th 2012, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) has been monitoring a number of Facebook pages created to spread hateful content about ANZAC
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Facebook Discourages Reporting
Why would Facebook let users go through a long process to report something, only to tell them in the final step that they should have used a different
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Facebook’s New Reporting Tool
Facebook have updated their image reporting tool. The new tool has more steps to it, and by default the “report to Facebook” option isn’t selected. It also prompts
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Facebook Fails Review
(Updated 14 September 2012) OHPI recently reported a number of antisemitic images to Facebook using the regular reporting facility available to all users. Every one of our reports
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OHPI Presentation on Aboriginal Memes
The following presentation was presented at the “Owning Racism – Can we talk?” symposium at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum on 23 August 2012.
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Facebook gets it wrong on Aboriginal Memes
Current status (Updated 24 August 8:30am, Melbourne time) A new Aboriginal Memes page was created on August 23rd, the day before the launch of Australia’s National Anti-Racism Strategy. It