Publications
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IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism Examples
Misinformation and disinformation are a significant harm to society. When used in the context of COVID-19 it leads to vaccine hesitancy, or to be blunt, to people acting in ways that put their life and those of others around them at risk. The danger of misinformation / disinformation is not new. When used to target…
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Basic Online Safety Expectations
In October 2021 the Online Hate Prevention Institute provided a submission to the Australian Government’s consultation on the draft Online Safety (Basic Online Safety Expectations) Determination. Today, the new Ministerial Determination was announced and has come into effect. In our submission we stated: We believe the Government has correctly set the roles of Government, Social…
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Annual Report 2021
The OHPI 2021 Annual Report is available for download. Highlights Submission and Reports published by OHPI International Engagement Our CEO presented to the “Asia Pacific Regional Forum on Hate Speech, Social Media and Minorities”, a 2-day online event convened by the Tom Lantos Institute and United Nations Special Rapporteur for Minority Issues. He also served…
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Today’s News: “Facebook Bad”
There is a tug of war going on within Facebook as they both lead the way in mitigation efforts, and persist with a corporate culture that seems to regularly make the wrong call, putting profits before people and undermining their own efforts. We need to support those positive efforts while pushing them to address the…
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Guilty Plea to Poway Terrorist Attack
On Friday John T. Earnest, the terrorist responsible for the 2019 attack on the Poway Synagogue in California, pled guilty to 113 Federal Hate Crimes. The announcement from the United States Department of Justice outlines the details of the attack, including the manifesto Earnest posted online just prior to the attack. The Online Hate Prevention…
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Mayor Jack Dempsey on online hate
We welcome Mayor Dempsey’s call for Federal and State Governments to “catch up with the modern world and make laws that keep people safe online”.
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To tackle Nazi we must tackle incitement
The Australian government must not only ban far-right groups, but also criminalise speech that incites violence in the name of ideological or religious extremism.
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Solving Antisemitic Hate Speech in Social Media
Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds is the fifth volume of the An End to Antisemitism! series. Online Hate Prevention Institute’s CEO Andre Oboler wrote a chapter that explores how the problem of antisemitic hate speech on social media can be solved.
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Tackling COVID Misinformation
Misinformation continues to circulate about both the Covid virus and Covid vaccines. Today we discuss a particularly dangerous example.
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Technology’s capacity for harm
The IEEE‘s flagship publication, Spectrum Magazine, has noted the work of the Online Hate Prevention Institute in an article in its March issue which looks at the use of technology by the Nazis and lessons for today. The article by Allison Marsh is titled “Inside the Third Reich’s Radio“. It looks in-depth at how the…