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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Golden Dawn Australia Update
Updated: 12 May 2014, 6pm – earlier today OHPI wrote to both Facebook and the Australian Human Rights Commission to notify them of our work on the Australians for Golden Dawn page. Following those e-mails we’re please to report that the page has now been closed by Facebook. The original post which we sent Facebook…
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Social Media, Golden Dawn and Australia’s Far-Right
An update to this briefing is available here. On 30 January, 2013, the Australian First Party Brisbane created a Facebook page. On November 7, 2013, a Facebook page called Australians for the Golden Dawn Party was created. Five months later, on May 2, 2014, Brisbane became the site of a Golden Dawn solidarity rally. The…
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ATO tackles e-commerce taxation
The Financial Review has reported that the Australian Taxation Office is taking the lead internationally in ensuring major companies, and technology companies in particular, are paying their fair share of tax. Many of the companies have been avoiding tax, not only in Australia, but globally. China is assisting in the effort and as the head…
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Wrongful unpublishing – The Alex Levin Art Page
In his capacity as co-chair of the Online Antisemitism Working Group of the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism, OHPI’s CEO (Dr Andre Oboler) wrote to Facebook today for clarification about the unpublishing of Alex Levin’s art page. The page appears to have been wrongly removed based on claims it was posting pornographic content. The letter…
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Reporting Proud Holocaust Deniers
Summary The Facebook page Proud to be a Holocaust Denier (page id: 1420505938199432) was created on March 24th 2014. It currently has 262 supporters. The page propagates antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Some of the page’s content could be described as deliberately misleading, while other content could be described as deliberately offensive. The content, however, goes…
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RDA Campaigning Resources
Images The following memes, created by OHPI, may be saved and shared. Videos The following videos can be shared through YouTube More info
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Racial Discrimination Act and Freedom of Speech
On March 25th 2014 the Australian Government released draft legislation showing proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act. The Online Hate Prevention Institute is deeply concerned by these proposed changes. We believe they will almost entirely eliminate Australia’s prohibitions against racist hate speech online. We believe the changes will lead to an increase in racially…
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OHPI’s exposure of ‘Islam Exposed’
We have recently been recieving a number of messages from supporters of the “Islam Exposed” Facebook page who are upset that “Islam Exposed” is included in OHPI’s list of Facebook pages promoting hate speech against Muslims. The list is part of our report into anti-Muslim hate published last December. The list in our report was…
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The Merchant – an Antisemitic Facebook Page
Update 1 February 2014: “The Merchant” page is currently “unpublished”, this means it is not visible on Facebook and you can no longer report it. It has, however, not been permanently removed. This means the administrtaor can make it come back at any time. If the unpublishing was done by Facebook as a warning (with…
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Briefing: Aboriginal Memes 2014
The “Aboriginal Memes 2014″ Facebook page was created on January 9th 2014 and was unpublished by Facebook on January 27th. Facebook had initially been rejecting reports users made about the page, but reversed their position after a journalist from News Corp contacted the company for an explanation. This incident against highlights that Facebook’s internal mechanisms…