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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Twitter to be sued over #GaysMustDie
Twitter is to be sued in France over a hash tag “Gays must die”. A number of activists are questioning why Twitter rather than the users involved are being sued, the reason is that without first suing Twitter, it is impossible to get enough information on the users to take appropriate action against them. Twitter…
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Holocaust denial on Facebook – An Untold Story
Some online hate is so bad that we stop our regular activity to see it removed. The Holocaust denial page “The Untold History” was one such page. Social media is a powerful tool and that power should not be used to take content like this viral. Social media companies, that have such a major impact…
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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 as being limited to hate directed against Muslim people. While the report is still in progress, this page will list some examples of content we feel qualifies…
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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 OHPI, and the help of our online supporters, the content has now been removed. OHPI monitored the content as it grew from 61,000 shares to over 72,000…
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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 veterans. OHPI have discussed the situation with the RSL and police and have notified the Department for Veteran’s Affairs. These cowardly attacks will be ignored by most…
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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 process and their complaint will now not be accepted? OHPI considers this a serious design flaw which may discourage the reporting of serious complaints. Hate speech can…
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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 users to check the community standards before reporting content. Most interesting is the final message after something has been reported, this message provides an apology for the users experience.…
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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 was swiftly reviewed and swiftly rejected. Formal complaints in Australia have let to some of the hateful content being blocked to Australian users, however, the content remains…
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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 seems some people just don’t get it. If you want to put a stop to it, please report the page. Details are on OHPI’s Facebook page. On…